On November 10, 1975, a fierce storm claimed the Great Lakes freighter Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior, taking with it all 29 crew members. This tragic event, immortalized by Gordon Lightfoot in ...

NOVEMBER 10, 1975THE ORE CARRIER, THE EDMUND FITZGERALD, SINKS DURING A STORM ON LAKE SUPERIOR. NONE OF THE 29 CREW MEMBERS ...

Honoring the haunting legacy of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the Turnpike Troubadours performed a reverent cover of the Gordon Lightfoot classic.

On November 10, 2,200 gathered at Split Rock Lighthouse to remember the Edmund Fitzgerald tragedy, honoring the 29 lost souls ...

It is November now, and the winds are beginning to gather over the upper Great Lakes. I find myself returning in mind to the ...

The Door County Maritime Museum's curator and exhibits manager looks back on the story of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, 50 years ...

"We’re not gone until the last person who remembered us is gone, and my hope is that we never live in a world in which no one ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the largest and most famous of the estimated ...

Once on land, Atkins called his colleagues in Detroit to relay his draft that spread the news. He wrote in his “lede,” the ...

Ironically, Lightfoot said in a 2015 interview with NPR that he was inspired to write the song after being annoyed by an ...

Monday, Nov. 10, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the shipwreck that claimed the Edmund Fitzgerald and all 29 men aboard.  For those unfamiliar, the Edmund Fitzgerald was a bulk carrier that ...

Edmund James Fitzgerald didn't know it at the time, but when he stood there watching the massive ship at around 10 years old, ...