November 17, 2006

I remember the night I first heard Gordon Lightfoot's 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'. It was after bed time and I was lying awake, listening to that transistor radio my grandpa and grandma had given me for Christmas.

November 10th was the thirty-first anniversary of the loss of the ship and her crew. Here is a great video put together by Stonewall Studios:

More videos below.

Split Rock Light House, 11/11/06. They light up every year in memory of the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald:

Launching the Fitz (1958):

More 1958 video:

Brief clip from a 1989 expedition to the wreck:

Virtual "fly-over" of a computer 3D model of the ship:

posted November 17, 2006 at 7:55 AM ET #
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