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Martin Eden

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7. The ship's bell of the Edmund Fitzgerald is on display

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Nov 3, 2025, 11:49 PM

Nov 2025

At the Whitefish Point Lighthouse & Shipwreck Museum. If you're ever in Michigan's Upper Peninsula east of Pictured Rocks, I highly recommend visiting this excellent little museum.

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'The legend lives on': Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald still resonates 50 years later [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2025 OP

Ive been to the musem at whitefish bay. Eko Nov 2025 #1

Gives a chill every time... yorkster Nov 2025 #3

Yes, it does. MorbidButterflyTat Nov 2025 #11

So wild Lightfoot recorded the song just weeks after the wreck BaronChocula Nov 2025 #10

One of my all time favorite songs of my youth- and still biophile Nov 2025 #2

Same here Walleye Nov 2025 #4

The song was always intensely poignant, but so much so with the loss of Lightfoot. hlthe2b Nov 2025 #5

His first LP was the first LP I bought as a kid. Disaffected Nov 2025 #6

I can still his voice sing it, and the way he sang it. I still have my old record albums, tapes Linda ladeewolf Nov 2025 #8

The ship's bell of the Edmund Fitzgerald is on display Martin Eden Nov 2025 #7

(Name dropping) I Went To School with Gordon Lightfoot's Cousin in the Early 70s. Definitely a great ballad. TrollBuster9090 Nov 2025 #9