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To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, Avon Lake resident and musician Jerry Popiel has released a special music video tribute for his officially licensed ...

Captain Ernest McSorley and his crew were fighting for their lives in a battle against the "Witch of November" when his final words went out over the radio. “We are holding our own." Less than 15 ...

For the past several years, a Gordon Lightfoot song from 1976 has become an unlikely seasonal meme. The song, of course, is “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” a mournful ballad of the true story of ...

News 8 is producing a series of stories that will be published in the days leading up to Nov. 10, the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It will culminate with a WOOD TV+ special ...

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“The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy.” 50 years ago today marks the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, which is infamous for its mystery and notoriety ...

No one was more surprised than Gordon Lightfoot when his ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" became one of the biggest hits of 1976, less than a year after the disaster it commemorates. The ...

PARADISE, MICHIGAN — Whitefish Point, also known as the Shipwreck Coast around the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and as the Graveyard of the Great Lakes to the sailors who must sneak past it to enter ...

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, killing all 29 crew members. The exact cause of the shipwreck remains unknown, and the wreck site is now a protected grave.