![]() ![]() Other works written and illustrated by Lent include 1987's Bayberry Bluff, Molasses Flood published in 1992 and his 2000 book Ruby and Fred. Under the pen name of Ernest Small, he wrote the 1966 books Baba Yaga about a witch, and J ohn Tabor's Ride, a fanciful yarn about a sailor from New England. He worked for the Container Corporation of America designing labels for cans and worked for the Bresnick Advertising Company where he designed bank advertisements.Īfter receiving positive feedback from a juvenile-books editor at Atlantic Monthly Press, he put out Pistachio, a story published in 1964 about a green cow and a circus that he wrote and illustrated. Lent used a wide range of techniques in his illustrations, including acrylic painting, cardboard cutouts, colored pencil and ink and wash.īorn in Boston, Lent attended the Boston Museum School where he graduated with a degree in art in 1953, after which he went to Italy and Switzerland on a study grant. He also illustrated the book House of Stairs. In 1973 he was awarded the Caldecott Medal for his illustrations of The Funny Little Woman, by Arlene Mosel. For more on this story, listen to our full interview with Nicole Sharp.Blair Lent was an American author and illustrator of mostly Chinese-themed books, including the popular 1968 children's book Tikki Tikki Tembo. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. One of them survived for a couple of hours and then he couldn't continue fighting the molasses anymore and he ended up drowning. ![]() CO: And how many of those men survived that? NS: All but one of them survived. I believe they were on the first floor and they were trapped there for hours waiting for people to be able to rescue them because they were all pinned in place. ![]() Then the upper floors of the firehouse crashed down on them. The initial wave smashed against the firehouse and pushed it almost entirely off its foundation. That was a group of men who were in a firehouse a short ways away from the molasses tank. I think the group of men who were having lunch is one of the more striking stories. only an upheaval, a thrashing about in the sticky mass, showed where any life was." People, horses, everything just struggled to survive and died. (Wikipedia) CO: A Boston Post report at the time described it as "molasses, waist deep, covered the street and swirled and bubbled about the wreckage. Report from The Boston PostĪn elevated train structure was damaged by shrapnel in the disaster. only an upheaval, a thrashing about in the sticky mass, showed where any life was. Molasses, waist deep, covered the street and swirled and bubbled about the wreckage. ![]() It's totally in line with what the historical record says. I realized that because the molasses is one and a half times denser than water and there was so much of it in this tank, in fact, fluid dynamics and the physics equations predict that it would move at speeds that are about 15 to 17 metres per second. Initially, I actually thought, "How in the world could it really have moved that fast?" and sort of surprised myself when I started doing the calculations. How quickly was the molasses travelling, as far as your calculations show? NS: According to historical accounts, the molasses moved at a speed of 35 miles per hour, which is about 15.5 metres per second, which is really quite fast. CO: So let's talk about this wave of molasses that left the tank that day in 1919. It turns out that saying can be wrong, if you have close to 9,000 cubic metres of molasses. Sharp, do we need to rethink that old saying "slow as molasses in January"? Nicole Sharp: Well, if you have enough molasses, then yes. She recently presented her findings on the Molasses Flood at a conference in Portland, Ore. She's a science communicator and a fluid dynamics researcher in Cambridge, Mass. (Nicole Sharp) Nicole Sharp has attempted to crack the mystery wide open. Nicole Sharp is an engineer, writer and science communicator specializing in fluid dynamics. ![]()
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