November Book Club-Dark Tide by Stephen Puleo

This months selection is a little bit of local history. It is the story of the molasses flood that occurred n Boston in 1919. It should be interesting discovering some of the details. It received 4.5 stars on Amazon and 4 on Good Reads. Please join us at Paupers Pantry in Fitchburg. Paupers Pantry does not serve alcohol but you can bring your own wine or beer and they will provide ice and glasses. I've been there a few times and the food is always excellent.

Below is an excerpt from Amazon.
Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters were playing cards in Boston’s North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like roaring surf, one of them said later. Like a runaway two-horse team smashing through a fence, said another. A third firefighter jumped up from his chair to look out a window—“Oh my God!” he shouted to the other men, “Run!” A 50-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses had just collapsed on Boston’s waterfront, disgorging its contents as a 15-foot-high wave of molasses that at its outset traveled at 35 miles an hour. It demolished wooden homes, even the brick fire station. The number of dead wasn’t known for days. It would be years before a landmark court battle determined who was responsible for the disaster