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It was fifty years ago tomorrow that the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior. Gordon Lightfoot memorialized the tragedy with his song Th...

In commemoration of the 47th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Minnesota’s Split Rock Light House will be holding a Memor...

On this, the 46th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, we offer for your consideration The National Weather Service’ story ...

Forty-three years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, with all twenty-nine crew, was lost in Lake Superior. Today the Split Rock Light House will h...

We took a trip to Duluth this am. We're happy to report that, despite being battered by some very, very early November gales this Octobe...

If you're from the MidWest or the North Country, you may well ask "what's World Oceans Day got to do with us?" The answer...

I've visited Minnesota's North Shore a number of times since moving here from Massachusetts. Lake Superior is as close to an ocean...

It's becoming clear to me that Halloween this year is likely to be a low-key affair, unless we get another Halloween blizzard. Our two...

Yesterday was the 38th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald . If we had timed our recent North Shore adventure a little dif...

As much as we enjoyed our visit to the North Shore and Grand Portage, and we did, it was nice to get home to our own bed, to say "Hi!...

© harrington A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are for. Thirty-seven years ago, on November 10,1975, the Ed...