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