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Memories and the Tragic Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald

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Thirty years ago in one of the fiercest storms of the 20th century on the Great Lakes, the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald went down with all hands on eastern Lake Superior.Twenty-nine crew members were on board, all lost to the fury of a November gale.Mike Simonson gathered some of the voices of people involved with that night and the crew…

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