Kids Prefer Cheese: The Edmund Fitzgerald

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

It was today, in 1975.

Labels: history

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At 11:51 AM, November 10, 2010 , Mr. Overwater said...: I've always been interested in the Edmund Fitzgerald. If you ever find yourself in Duluth, MN (which is actually a great little city), you can tour a similar ore carrier called the William A. Irvin:
http://www.decc.org/omnimax-irvin/index.html

There's also a really good Edmund Fitzgerald exhibit in the adjacent Lake Superior Marine Museum:
http://www.lsmma.com/

I haven't gone to it yet, but this museum looks good too:
http://www.shipwreckmuseum.com/

At the bottom of that page, there's a movie with audio from the last radio conversations before it sank. Pretty spooky.
At 12:43 PM, November 10, 2010 , Anonymous said...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0DqPSF2fyo gordon lightfoot