Heres what Boston looked like after a deadly wave of molasses swallowed the north end
News@Northeastern • 1/15/19
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The revised News@Northeastern site, launched in 2017, allowed content creators to “stretch out” a bit on occasion and produce pieces that were a little outside of the realm of the daily news operation. I produced a news feature on the 100th anniversary of the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919. This was a disaster that occurred shortly after World War I in the North End of Boston and, if it was remembered at all, was largely relegated to punchlines and morbid curiosity due to the bizarre nature of the substance involved. In reality, there are fascinating and timely themes of labor relations, immigration, war-time patriotism and paranoia and more that allowed me to bring in faculty experts to provide depth, nuance, and context to the event. I selected never-before-seen photographs from the Boston Globe Archive recently acquired by Northeastern’s Archives and Special Collections.