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Close Encounters: The Wilsons - The Martha's Vineyard Times

The Marthas Vineyard Times Susan Wilson, left, and Holly Nadler ready to enjoy an evening visit. — Jeremy Driesen David Wilson relaxing at home, post-vaccines. — Jeremy Driesen Cora the Cavalier spaniel seems to approve of Susan Wilsons newest book, "What a Dog Knows." — Jeremy Driesen It started with a hug a few weeks ago, to wit my first nonfamily, post-vac, full-on nuzzle of this bright new season of hope we’re now entering, and this double hug was exchanged with Susan an...
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Singing history: Study says folk songs preserve memories of Great Lakes shipwrecks | News, Sports, Jobs

Eric Freedman Wikipedia via Capitol News Service The Edmund Fitzgerald, carrying a load of iron ore, went down in Lake Superior in 1975 and became the most famous Great Lakes shipwreck thanks to a song by Gordon Lightfoot. “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” also provides evidence of what researchers at Michigan Technological University and the nonprofit Center for Maritime and Underwater Resource Management in Leslie say: “The relationship between shipwrecks and folk tradition,...
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Study: Folk songs preserve memories of Great Lakes shipwrecks | News, Sports, Jobs

ERIC FREEDMAN The Edmund Fitzgerald, carrying a load of iron ore, went down in Lake Superior in 1975 and became the most famous Great Lakes shipwreck thanks to a song by Gordon Lightfoot. “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” also provides evidence of what researchers at Michigan Technological University and the nonprofit Center for Maritime and Underwater Resource Management in Leslie say: “The relationship between shipwrecks and folk tradition, as represented in folk music, has served to...
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Folk songs preserve memories of Great Lakes shipwrecks

SHARES The Edmund Fitzgerald, carrying a load of iron ore, went down in Lake Superior in 1975 and became the most famous Great Lakes shipwreck thanks to a song by Gordon Lightfoot. Image Wikipedia By Eric Freedman Capital News Service “The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee,” Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot wrote of Lake Superior. “The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead.” Her dead includes the 29-member crew of the Edmund Fitzgeral...
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Canada's shipwrecks are tantalizing time capsules

Article content April may well be the cruellest month, but as any Canadian music lover knows, it’s the storms of November that show no mercy. Thanks to folksinger Gordon Lightfoot, the cruel abyss that is Lake Superior and its “never-give-up-its-dead” late-autumn tempests are legend. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Canada’s shipwrecks are tantalizing time capsules Back to video The Ontario-born musician immortalized the lake...
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Looking Through the Lens of the Lighthouse Keeper

Fox21Online Split Rock Lighthouse Site Manager, Hayes Scriven, Has Passion for Capturing Natures Beauty On The Job March 11, 2021 TWO HARBORS, Minn. – They say a picture is worth a thousand words. The statement holds ever so true for one lucky photographer living along the North Shore of Lake Superior. “Photography and Split Rock go together like peanut butter and jelly, they’re just delicious together,” said Hayes Scriven, site manager at Split Rock Lighthouse. You could say the COVID-...
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Lake Superior winter: Researchers belatedly turn their eyes to the impact of warming winters

Deep below the cold, dark surface of Lake Superior, sensors strung like pearls along a vertical steel cable sway with the currents. Recording the lake’s dropping temperatures as winter sets in, their gentle rhythm belies their worrying readings: the lake is getting warmer. Jay Austin heaved several of these science experiments off a boat last fall – tossing concrete blocks into the deep water to anchor the cable of sensors stretching down from floating platforms just below the surface. In t...
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Breaking the Ice | Trailer Life

December 18, 2020 CELEBRATING WOMEN ANGLERS Nobody has a “crappie” day when a bunch of ladies get together to go ice fishing! The Ladies Midwest Meetup ice-fishing event, which grew organically on social media, plans to expand even more. Photo by Natalie Dillon Pursuing their passion, women are a growing demographic in the sport of ice fishing Some say fishing is the great equalizer. You don’t necessarily have to be of a specific athletic build to be good at it or to participate in tourna...
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