Washington: 50 years after Edmund Fitzgerald wreck, story endures despite ballad’s myths

Ironically, Lightfoot said in a 2015 interview with NPR that he was inspired to write the song after being annoyed by an ...

An Infamous American Shipwreck Turned 50. Then Came the Internet’s Response.

Monday marked the 50 th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which went down during a ferocious storm in ...