molasses

In 1919 Boston, an orphaned eighth-grade girl plans to head west to become a cowboy until the giant tank of molasses in her neighborhood explodes.

In 1919 Boston, an orphaned eighth-grade girl plans to head west to become a cowboy until the giant tank of molasses in her neighborhood explodes.

A young boy describes how he watches his grandfather as all the family works together to harvest the sorghum cane and make molasses.

Maggie is known for telling tall tales to make her life seem more exciting, but when a real disaster strikes, no one believes her, so now she has to try and save her neighborhood by herself.

Needing to earn money after his father's death during the influenza epidemic of 1918, thirteen-year-old Joshua works as a newspaper boy in Boston, one day finding himself in the vicinity of an explosion that sends tons of molasses coursing through the streets.

One warm January day a molasses tank in front of Charley's house explodes and the molasses carries his house from the Boston waterfront through the town.

Needing to earn money after his father's death during the influenza epidemic of 1918, thirteen-year-old Joshua works as a newspaper boy in Boston, one day finding himself in the vicinity of an explosion that sends tons of molasses coursing through the streets.