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"Dark Tide is the definitive account of America's most fascinating and surreal disaster." —John Marr, San Francisco Bay Guardian

Shortly after noon on January 15, 1919, a fifty-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses collapsed on Boston's waterfront, disgorging its contents as a fifteen-foot-high wave of molasses that briefly traveled at thirty-five miles an hour. Dark Tide tells the compelling story of this man-made disaster that claimed the lives of twenty-one people and scores of animals and caused widespread destruction.

Dark Tide has been selected as a "town-wide reading book" for five Massachusetts communities including Holliston, Mass.

"Narrated with gusto . . . [Puleo's] enthusiasm for a little-known catastrophe is infectious." —The New Yorker

"Compelling . . . Puleo has done justice to a gripping historical story." —Ralph Ranalli, Boston Globe

"Thoroughly researched, the volume weaves together the stories of the people and families affected by the disaster . . . The cleanup lasted months, the lawsuits years, the fearful memories a lifetime." —Randolph E. Schmid, Associated Press

"Giving a human face to tragedy is part of the brilliance of Stephen Puleo's Dark Tide . . . Until they were given voice in this book, the characters who drove the story were forgotten." —Caroline Leavitt, Boston Sunday Globe.
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On a warm afternoon in late summer, when the sorghum cane is ripe and ready, Grandpa decides it's time to make molasses There is so much to do. The cane needs to be cut. Then the juice needs to be squeezed out and cooked, ever so slowly, until it's dark brown and thick with sweetness Everyone helps. And everyone knows that Grandpa makes the best molasses ever. That's why he's called Molasses Man. But one day someone else will take over for Grandpa. Who will be the next Molasses Man? With Felicia Marshall's rich paintings and Kathy L. May's illuminating text, this book colorfully describes the making of molasses and the importance of cherished family traditions..
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"Call her Bourbon That's a name that will get her plenty of attention in life. . ." Bourbon Durpree's life begins with little fanfare and no luxuries in Millennium, a small southern town in North Carolina. She spends most of her life in search of something, anything, to make it meaningful in this town where everybody knows everybody else's business. It is a town where any indiscretion fuels the rumor mill. It is a town where, despite the end of legal segregation, blacks and whites rarely interact socially. It is a town that is about to change. Hargett weaves in universal themes of family, history, grief, and growth in one woman's story. Along the way, secrets are revealed, relationships created and destroyed. There is love, loss, and ultimately happiness, which comes "like molasses in the wintertime.".
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