Mystery of the Edmund Fitzgerald

by Joyce Styron Madsen

“The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee . . .” The haunting song “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” tells the legend of a shipwreck. But the story is more than a legend. The Edmund Fitzgerald was a real ship. On November 10, 1975, it suddenly plunged to the bottom of Lake Superior. What happened is a mystery. The Fitzgerald was as long as two city blocks. It was called “The Pride of the American Side” and was one of the hardest-working ships on the entire Great Lakes. This mighty ship carried tons of taconite, a flinty rock, from Minnesota mines down to blast furnaces along the lower Great Lakes. Then came that fateful day in 1975. The Fitzgerald set…

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