The Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot and the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald are inextricably linked in a way few ...
An expedition to the Edmund Fitzgerald site hasn’t happened since July 1995. That year, a team recovered the ship’s bell — ...
Ironically, Lightfoot said in a 2015 interview with NPR that he was inspired to write the song after being annoyed by an ...
The loss was commemorated in folk-rocker Gordon Lightfoot ’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” which hit No. 2 on the ...
Gordon Lightfoot’s The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was released less than a year after the ship sank and became an instant ...
As Monday marks 50 years since the ship’s sinking, visitors at Milwaukee’s Grohmann Museum honor the 29 lost sailors and the ...
MICHIGAN — The Edmund Fitzgerald might be the Great Lakes’ most famous shipwreck, sinking 50 years ago on November 10th, 1975 ...
The ship, commanded by renowned Great Lakes Captain Ernest McSorley, left from Superior, Wisconsin on November 9 carrying a load of iron ore to the steel mill on Zug Island, Michigan. But the next day ...
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship ...
WASHINGTON D.C., DC — Monday is the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior, marking a ...