Maritime disasters are sadly not unusual, and UNESCO estimates that there are more than three million shipwrecks littering ...

Most songs about historical events are written many years after the events themselves. It takes a while to know what events will be consequential and which ones will fade from memory. The Edmund ...

I’ll begrudge feminism one thing. Like communism, it won’t go down without a fight. Both ideologies are indivisibly wedded to the other. Both promise a suicidal solution to fabricated oppression. Both ...

I read Robin Washington’s column in Monday’s Star Tribune (“50 years later, story endures despite ballad’s myths,” Strib Voices) and felt compelled to respond to his column. Growing up in Minnesota ...

Fifty years ago this month, the gales of November swallowed the SS Edmund Fitzgerald along with her crew of 29 men, one of the largest ships to go down on Lake Superior and the Great Lakes. Remembered ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The gales of November came early—and in ...

MARQUETTE, Mich. — Spend enough time along the shores of Lake Superior and it won’t be long before there’s some reminder of what happened “when the gales of November came early.” This year marks the ...

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Only a few expeditions have made the journey down to the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, which is now designated a protected grave site. That leaves many questions unanswered.

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. NASHOTAH, Wis. — Without Gordon Lightfoot's song, the Edmund Fitzgerald could have faded from memory ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WSBT) — Monday marked the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald. The ship sank in Lake Superior in 1975, killing all 29 men on board. The anniversary is being ...

SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) - Mid-Michigan marks 50 years since the wreckage of the Edmund Fitzgerald that sank on Lake Superior in November of 1975. The ship battled the rough waters of Lake Superior as ...