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Eric Freedman
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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. âThe Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgeraldâ also provides evidence of what researchers at Michigan Technological University and the nonprofit Center for Maritime and Underwater Resource Management in Leslie say: âThe relationship between shipwrecks and folk tradition, as represented in folk music, has served to preserve memory of the events.â
“The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee,” singer Gordon Lightfoot wrote of Lake Superior. “The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead.”
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 preserve memory of the events.” (Wikipedia via Capitol News Service)
“The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee,” singer Gordon Lightfoot wrote of Lake Superior. “The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead.”
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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 Fitzgerald, victims of a vicious storm that sank the doomed freighter on route from Superior, Wisconsin, to a steel mill near Detroit in November 1975.