Courtesy of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society
Nov. 10 is the 50th anniversary of one of the most tragic and well-known shipwrecks on the Great Lakes, the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
The tragedy particularly resonates locally, with Superior being the ship’s last port of call, and “the wives and the sons and the daughters” of many of its crew still living in the area.
It is known far beyond that, however, thanks to the haunting ballad by the late Gordon Lightfoot.
