Edmund Fitzgerald

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impressions

I was 7 or 8 years old when I first heard the song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot.

My older brother happened to have incredible musical taste and he happened to be twenty years older than me. He was already in college, had a few cars, had a few girlfriends, and had a really cool stereo system in his really cool basement room that he had built himself. He was the one I looked up to, and the guy I learned the most from.

And he loved Gordon Lightfoot.

links for study

• https://www.shipwreckmuseum.com/edmund-fitzgerald/
• https://ssedmundfitzgerald.org/
• https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/wxwise/fitz.html
• https://www.michiganseagrant.org/lessons/lessons/by-broad-concept/earth-science/data-sets/the-storm-that-sunk-the-edmund-fitzgerald/
• https://www.awesomemitten.com/the-wreck-of-the-edmund-fitzgerald/
• https://www.cultofweird.com/death/edmund-fitzgerald-shipwreck-dead/
• https://www.upi.com/Archives/1994/07/28/Divers-find-corpse-at-Fitzgerald-wreck/5370775368000/

books

• File:Mighty Fitz The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Michael Schumacher) (z-lib.org).pdf

• File:The Edmund Fitzgerald. The Song of the Bell (Kathy-jo Wargin,Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen) (z-lib.org).pdf

videos

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yftOmLZMhFM
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9jDNEtg8JY
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIg90sVSwSE
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-cb_T3n47A
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5i_XMqdULM
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyaEDWf_dG8
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqXcgHCYxBo
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQjidncov9A

the men

 


Michael E. Armagost, 37, Third Mate from Iron River, Wisconsin

Fred J. Beetcher, 56, Porter from Superior, Wisconsin

Thomas D. Bentsen, 23, Oiler from St. Joseph, Michigan

Edward F. Bindon, 47, First Asst. Engineer from Fairport Harbor, Ohio

Thomas D. Borgeson, 41, Maintenance Man fromDuluth, Minnesota

Oliver J. Champeau, 41, Third Asst. Engineer from Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

Nolan S. Church, 55, Porter from Silver Bay, Minnesota

Ransom E. Cundy, 53, Watchman from Superior, Wisconsin

Thomas E. Edwards, 50, Second Asst. Engineer from Oregon, Ohio

Russell G. Haskell, 40, Second Asst. Engineer from Millbury, Ohio

George J. Holl, 60, Chief Engineer from Cabot, Pennsylvania

Bruce L. Hudson, 22, Deck Hand from North Olmsted, Ohio

Allen G. Kalmon, 43, Second Cook from Washburn, Wisconsin

Gordon F. MacLellan, 30, Wiper from Clearwater, Florida

Joseph W. Mazes, 59, Special Maintenance Man from Ashland, Wisconsin

John H. McCarthy, 62, First Mate from Bay Village, Ohio

Ernest M. McSorley, 63, Captain from Toledo, Ohio

Eugene W. O'Brien, 50, Wheelsman from Toledo, Ohio

Karl A. Peckol, 20, Watchman from Ashtabula, Ohio

John J. Poviach, 59, Wheelsman from Bradenton, Florida

James A. Pratt, 44, Second Mate from Lakewood, Ohio

Robert C. Rafferty, 62, Steward from Toledo, Ohio

Paul M. Riippa, 22, Deck Hand from Ashtabula, Ohio

John D. Simmons, 63, Wheelsman from Ashland, Wisconsin

William J. Spengler, 59, Watchman from Toledo, Ohio

Mark A. Thomas, 21, Deck Hand from Richmond Heights, Ohio

Ralph G. Walton, 58, Oiler from Fremont, Ohio

David E. Weiss, 22, Cadet from Agoura, California

Blaine H. Wilhelm, 52, Oiler from Moquah, Wisconsin