In the wake of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Great Lakes Commission

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald: A Cultural Reflection

(This post began as a reply to the Jennifer Schuessler, author of the NY Times article In the Wake of the Edmund Fitzgerald. She asked “I’m curious to hear your thoughts about this most mythologized of shipwrecks, and about Lightfoot’s song — which based on my reporting is still on the jukebox in every bar around the Great Lakes.”) I live in Toronto, where Gordon Lightfoot is revered as a God, on par with Wayne Gretzky before The Great One went …

In the wake of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Great Lakes Commission

The mighty Edmund Fitzgerald, immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot, sank 50 years ago on Lake Superior. Reporters spent a week on a Great Lakes freighter, the Wilfred Sykes, that […]