Gordon Lightfoot and his band recorded the "little ditty" in a Toronto studio in December 1975, just weeks after the ...

Gordon Lightfoot turned a brief news item about a Great Lakes tragedy into one of the most haunting songs ever written — an elegy that still echoes 50 years later.

The ship, commanded by renowned Great Lakes Captain Ernest McSorley, left from Superior, Wisconsin on November 9 carrying a load of iron ore to the steel mill on Zug Island, Michigan. But the next day ...

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Fifty years ago, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, killing 29 crew members. Gordon Lightfoot's haunting ballad ...

Only a few expeditions have made the journey down to the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, which is now designated a protected ...

On Nov. 17, 1973, President Richard Nixon uttered the infamous words, "I am not a crook," in response to reporters' questions ...

Spirit of Gordon Lightfoot echoed through Oro-Medonte brewery Friday as people enjoyed live performances and shared memories ...

Monday, Nov. 10, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the shipwreck that claimed the Edmund Fitzgerald and all 29 men aboard.  For those unfamiliar, the Edmund Fitzgerald was a bulk carrier that ...

It is November now, and the winds are beginning to gather over the upper Great Lakes. I find myself returning in mind to the Lakes, where I spent every summer at our home in Door County, Wisconsin, ...

On Nov. 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sunk in the Great Lakes, inspiring Gordon Lightfoot to write a hit song called 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.' ...

“The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee” - From “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” First come the mournful notes - an electric guitar layered over a ...