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How the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Became Every Guy's Favorite Historical Maritime Disaster

For the past several years, a Gordon Lightfoot song from 1976 has become an unlikely seasonal meme. The song, of course, is “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” a mournful ballad of the true story of ...
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Thousands attend Edmund Fitzgerald 50th memorial ceremony at Whitefish Point

Thousands of people gathered at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum at Whitefish Point on a windswept section of Lake Superior on Monday, Nov. 10 to mark the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the SS ...
Chicago Tribune

A ceremony remembers the Edmund Fitzgerald 50 years later, gales of November included

PARADISE, MICHIGAN — Whitefish Point, also known as the Shipwreck Coast around the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and as the Graveyard of the Great Lakes to the sailors who must sneak past it to enter ...