Boston.com reports: “The Rabb Lecture Hall at the Boston Public Library was filled and there was an overflow crowd outside last night to hear local author Stephen Puleo and Boston Globe books editor Nicole Lamy discuss Puleo’s book, Dark Tide.  The audience of roughly 300 peppered Puleo with questions about his research, his writing, and details about the great molasses flood of 1919 that leveled huge portions of the North End.”

Here, Steve explains what followed in the wake of the molasses tidal wave.  Read more from Boston.com.