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Sunday, November 10, 2024
Bonus! Song o' the Edmund Fitzgerald
Gordon Lightfoot, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" from Summertime Dream (Mike Papa Whiskey)
Operation AXIOM
Forty-nine years ago to the day, 10 November 1975, twenty-nine souls were lost when the lake freighter S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald sank amidst a severe storm—"the Witch of November"—on Lake Superior, a freshwater sea of monstrous proportions. The captain's last radio message, transmitted while the Edmund Fitzgerald battled against thirty-five-foot waves, was, "We are holding our own." The Edmund Fitzgerald was a legend in her own time, setting six seasonal haul records in a seventeen-year career, yet her doomed crew & tragic wreck would be all but forgotten today if not for this date's annual R.B.D.S.O.T.D., the popular 1976 ballad, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, to whom our collective memory owes a great debt.
Twenty-nine men perished when the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald sank on 10 November 1975, forty-nine years ago today.
The Wayback Machine Tour of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Edmund Fitzgerald '23 + Edmund Fitzgerald '22 + Edmund Fitzgerald '21 + Edmund Fitzgerald '20
Edmund Fitzgerald '18 + Edmund Fitzgerald '17 + Edmund Fitzgerald '16 + Edmund Fitzgerald '15
Edmund Fitzgerald '14 + Edmund Fitzgerald '11 + Edmund Fitzgerald '10
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