The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong


A Sticky Situation

January 15, 2019

Happy 100th birthday to one of the strangest disasters in American history: Boston's Great Molasses Flood. For our season 5 premiere, we're looking at the weird and deadly 35 foot tall wall of syrup that destroyed Boston's North End a century ago, and what caused such an enormous--and enormously curious--thing to happen in the first place.