TWO HARBORS, MINN. (KFGO) – The annual observance of the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck on Lake Superior on November 10th, 1975 will be tomorrow at the Split Rock Lighthouse near Two Harbors, Minnesota. The event commemorates the loss of her 29 crew members that sank during a storm on the big lake after leaving Superior with iron ore from the mines near Duluth.
Gordon Lightfoot made it the subject of his 1976 song, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” which may have made the disaster among the best-known in the history of Great Lakes shipping. Lightfoot, in Fargo to play a concert at the Civic Center a number of years ago, talked about the song in this interview from the KFGO archives:
At 4:30 tomorrow afternoon, the Split Rock Lighthouse will temporarily close while the names of the crew members will be read to the tolling of a ship’s bell. Following the ceremony, the beacon of the lighthouse will be lit.
A portion of the beacon lighting will be streaming live on YouTube.
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