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Disasters

January 15, 2010, beginning at 7:00 p.m.

At David and Mary's Place

On the 91st Anniversary of the North End Molasses Flood

Janet Buda

  • STEPHEN PULEO, excerpt from Dark Titde: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919.

    Stephen Helfer

  • FOLK SONG, "The Titanic" (also known as "It Was Sad When That Great Ship Went Down").

    David Herder

  • EDWARD GIBBON, excerpt from Chapter XXVI Part V of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

    Chris Murphy

  • WILL GRIGG, excerpt from Global Gun Grab.

    • Jeffrey Quinlan

  • JOEL DERFNER, excerpt (pp. 154-160) from chapter "On Go-Go Dancing" from Swish.

    Mary Trumbull

  • HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, "The Wreck of the Hesperus."

    David Trumbull

  • JAMES THURBER, abridgement of "The Day the Dam Broke" from My Life and Hard Times.