On this, the 46th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, we offer for your consideration
- The National Weather Service’ story of the aftermath of the tragedy
- Gordon Lightfoot’s haunting rendition of his song about the sinking
- Previous postings on My Minnesota about the Edmund Fitzgerald
- A reminder that the Split Rock light will be lit this evening in memoriam
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| Split Rock light house
Photo by J. Harrington
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Although not a November gale, today’s weather forecast brings a threat of the season’s first local snowfall sometime during the next several days with significant snowfall forecast for northern Minnesota and Canada. We’re hoping that whatever we get will melt shortly after it falls. We’d be happy if we got lasting snow on Christmas Eve that melted about New Year’s, but our drainfield tells us it needs the insulation of snow cover.
When the wind works against us in the dark,
And pelts the snow
The lower chamber window on the east,
And whispers with a sort of stifled bark,
The beast,
‘Come out! Come out!’—
It costs no inward struggle not to go,
Ah, no!
I count our strength,
Two and a child,
Those of us not asleep subdued to mark
How the cold creeps as the fire dies at length,—
How drifts are piled,
Dooryard and road ungraded,
Till even the comforting barn grows far away
And my heart owns a doubt
Whether 'tis in us to arise with day
And save ourselves unaided.
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