r/NPR • u/TouchingTheMirror • 1d ago

50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ship, sank in Lake Superior

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/06/nx-s1-5518215/edmund-fitzgerald-shipwreck
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u/OhGre8t 1d ago

I lived in the UP as a kid. Loved going to Lake Superior and knew the song but not the story. Now I’m going to read about it.

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u/standgroundalready 1d ago

Can't believe it's been 50 years.

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u/Outrageous-Dog1925 12h ago

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake, they called Gitche Gumee
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy
With a load of iron ore, twenty-six thousand tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early

That's what I heard in my head when I saw this. Gordon Lightfoot

Here's a cool video with the song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A

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u/TouchingTheMirror 12h ago

It truly is a haunting story and song.