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"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" - Gordon Lightfoot (Original Post) Dulcinea Sep 2025 OP
The 50th anniversary Coldwater Sep 2025 #1
Wonderful song. Queso Delicioso Sep 2025 #2
I'm old enough to remember the news reports when this happened. love_katz Sep 2025 #3

Coldwater

(1,343 posts)
1. The 50th anniversary
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 12:23 AM
Sep 2025

We're fast approaching the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in November of 1975/

Queso Delicioso

(209 posts)
2. Wonderful song.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 12:25 AM
Sep 2025

There's a group called The Longest Johns that have a great cover of this song. They honor the sailors, and Gordon too.

love_katz

(3,285 posts)
3. I'm old enough to remember the news reports when this happened.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 12:33 AM
Sep 2025

I didn't live in the Midwest, but I remember feeling shocked and sad. We thought that was not possible, for a ship to just vanish in modern times.

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