The disaster spurred Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot to record, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." Each year on the anniversary of the wreck, bells are tolled in memory of the crew at the ...

Gordon Lightfoot on the Edmund Fitzgerald wreck: 'I didn't want it to be forgotten' Caitlin Looby is a Report for America corps member who writes about the environment and the Great Lakes.

They're known as the gales of November, and they conjure images of hurricane-force winds, towering waves, ice-cold temperatures, and bobbing ships. The gales of November, also known as the ...

1, "Sundown" came in 1974 followed by his Top 10 "Carefree Highway." His recording of "Wreck of The Edmond Fitzgerald" was six and a half minutes long, which was usually a no-no for a hit record ...

They're known as the gales of November, and they conjure images of hurricane-force winds, towering waves, ice-cold temperatures, and bobbing ships. Also known as the "witches" of November, they ...

PARADISE, MI — Whitefish Point isn’t on the way to anywhere else. This sandy corner of the eastern U.P. juts out into Lake Superior, and really feels like the edge of the world. The closest ...

The storm’s ferocity left about 40 ships sunk or stranded and it's estimated more than 275 lives were lost. The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald marked a major turning point in the shipping industry.

Long stretches of Russia’s Black Sea coastline are covered in oil spilled by the wreck of two Russian tankers over the weekend, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warning of an ...

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