Thirty-two years ago yesterday, the Edmund Fitzgerald went down.
Gordon Lightfoot said it best:
There are tragedies that resonate in each person's lives - despite being only four when she went down and having no direct memory or association with the event, it seems like I've always known about this. I wonder if all kids who grew up in Michigan in that time period do?
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It took me a while to figure out this song was about a real event, and does one ever say a song about a tragedy is a favorite, but I do like this song. It's spooky, whereas so much of GL's work is sappy (not saying I don't like sappy!)
call me a sap,
SL
my ex (from michigan) told me about this tanker sinking. His family had a house on one of the islands on River St Clair (please don't ask me which, I can't remember)
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