To give of one’s self: to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived…this is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Monday, January 15, 2007
Boston's Great Molasses Flood of 1/15/1919
Today is the 88th. anniversary of the Great Molasses Flood of Boston. 21 people killed, 150 injured. The dead were suffocated or cooked in the tidal wave of hot molasses. Think about that for minute.
2 comments:
That was an interesting read. I had never heard of it before.
Thanks TB for your usual critique of postings. I was so caught up in the content that I inadvertly gave molasses its 'southern spellin' alternative.
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