Without Gordon Lightfoot’s song, the Edmund Fitzgerald could have faded from memory along with the names of the roughly 6,500 ...

Gordon Lightfoot’s The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was released less than a year after the ship sank and became an instant ...

First come the mournful notes - an electric guitar layered over a 12-string acoustic. Then come the haunting lyrics.

David James Carlson leads the Gordon Lightfoot Tribute Band. He knew the late singer-songwriter personally, and remembers ...

November 10th marks the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, perhaps the most famous of all the estimated ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Lake Superior Nov. 10, 1975, and killed all 29 men aboard. It's a modern maritime tragedy that ...

Manitowoc's Wisconsin Maritime will welcome award-winning Great Lakes researcher and diver Ric Mixter for a Think & Drink event Nov. 6.

Only a few expeditions have made the journey down to the wreck, which is now designated a protected grave site. That leaves ...

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee The lake, it is said, never gives up ...

Terrence Tysall set a record scuba diving to the Edmund Fitzgerald. Ric Mixter dove in a submersible, finding a missing body. Here are their stories.