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Hello, History this week listeners. It is Sally here. Before we start this episode,

we just have a quick update for you. We are hard at work on great new episodes for 2022.

And in the meantime, we wanted to bring you some of our favorite episodes from the past two years.

So this month, we will be visiting some history this week hits and be back on January 31st with

brand new episodes. We hope you enjoy. January 15th, 1919. It's just after lunchtime in Boston's

north end, a busy section of the city that takes up about a square mile. It's this crowded patchwork

of commercial and residential blocks right on the water. Laborers, residents, commuters, horses,

they're all just going about their business. And then...

The great Boston molasses flood is one of the strangest disasters in US history.

But how could something so catastrophic ultimately have saved more lives than it cost?

Maybe even your own. Think of this flood as a wave that literally scoops up everything in its path.

And this one incredible disaster really changed history forever.

I'm Sally Helm and this is History this week. Today, we go back to the great Boston molasses

flood of 1919.

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Today, Boston's north end actually looks a lot like it did 100 years ago.

There are these winding one lane streets. They feel really narrow because they're

walled on both sides by these long rows of flat-based brick buildings. But the neighborhood

didn't always look that way.

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