Category: Remembreance
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Smithsonian Magazine: 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
And who doesn’t know the mournful song by Gordon Lightfoot? This is quite a fascinating article. Fifty years after the freighter disappeared into the depths of Lake Superior, the mystery of its demise—and the mournful ballad it inspired—still haunt the popular imagination. By the day he died, Ernest McSorley had built a reputation as the…