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World of Books Book Discussion May 17
By Alicia Waters | May 15, 2015
On Sunday, May 17, 2015 at 5 pm the World of Books discussion group will be talking about Dark Tide: the great Boston molasses flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo. Talking Books Plus members may download or reserve a copy to be mailed to them. Visit the Book Nook Room to participate in the discussion. Talking Books Plus members who are not already BARD members may sign up for download service at BARD.
Request DB059335.
Below is a description of the book taken from the RI Talking Books Plus Catalog –
Chronicle of the Boston waterfront’s molasses tank collapse that flooded the city’s North End with a sticky twenty-five-foot-high tidal wave, killing twenty-one people. Explores the tragedy from the tank’s 1915 construction to a civil lawsuit decided in 1925 and touches larger issues of immigration, WWI, Prohibition, and labor. 2003.
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