Today, ceremonies will be held in port cities across the Upper Midwest to commemorate the largest shipwreck in the history of the Great Lakes: the Nov. 10 sinking of the iron ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald.
Some years I talk about this date, and some years I don’t. It caught my attention this year because my news mentor and friend Mike Simonson produced one of the finest radio documentaries about the sinking of the Fitzgerald you’d ever hear. In fact, if this story is at all new to you, just stop what you’re doing and listen. (Right click to save the MP3). Enjoy the story, and enjoy the voice of one of the Twin Ports best journalists, lost far too soon just a month ago.
Meantime, I continue to pine for an up-tempo bluegrass version of Gordon Lightfoot’s “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.” It’s not a matter of if this is going to happen; it’s a matter of when. I will pay for this. I will put it on the radio. I have the power.
2 responses to “Marking 39 years since the sinking of the Fitz”
Thanks for the link to the radio program. I can remember when the Fitzgerald went down when I was a boy.
Gorden Lightfoot done good by Wrighting the song, I was 20 year old the night the ship went down it was hard to keep the snow off the winsheld.