EDMUND FITZGERALD

[ProudMNDemocrat]

14. My Daughter was but a 7 month old baby in 1975 when this happened.

My husband and I were living in North Dakota at the time and Winter already started. I read the headlines the next day in the Grand Forks Herald about this Ore Ship.

Fast forward to 1979 while at Summer Fest in Milwaukee. Gordon Lightfoot was in concert then. When he did this song, It was beginning to become dusk. Chills ran up my spine as the steel guitar belted out that eerie twang. I could see off into the distance of Lake Michigan Ore ships and Sailboats closer in.

In 1997 while in Duluth at the Maritime Museum there at Canal Park, there were actual artifacts from the Big Fitz. The song played on the PA system in one of the viewing rooms where a short film was played. I want to go back now to that Museum.