
Gordon Lightfoot song helps to keep the memory alive
Nov
10

Gordon Lightfoot song helps to keep the memory alive
Nov
10
Share The lake it is said never gives up its dead…” These words are from the famous song by Canadian folksinger Gordon Lightfoot, written about the sinking of the freighter the Edmund Fitzgerald 35 years ago on November 10. You wouldn’t know it by today’s balmy weather that 35 years ago, Michigan was experiencing what are …
Nov
08
ShareCome this time of year nearly every radio station plays Gordon Lightfoot’s “Gales of November” at least once. It is a fitting reminder that on November 10, 1975 the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank off Whitefish Point in Lake Superior taking all 29 hands to an icy death. Sunday’s Detroit Free Press to accompany an article …