Edmund Fitzgerald sank 39 years ago today on Lake Superior

[Penny Lane]

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapi...k_39_year.html


Please take a few minutes to listen on this page to Gordon Lightfoot's moving tribute. A masterpiece.

[Bonniegirl]

Wow I didn't realize it happened that recently! I thought it was a long time ago. I was thinking way back like the titanic! I remember and love Gordon Lightfoot's song, that came out in the 70's, so wow like I said before I didn't know it happened that recently!!!

Very sad!!!! Penny Lane/Marlene that was near you. It must have really touched your hearts! RIP all that were involved and God bless their families! That must have been a really rough time for them!!!

[Penny Lane]

Originally Posted by bonniegirl62

Wow I didn't realize it happened that recently! I thought it was a long time ago. I was thinking way back like the titanic! I remember and love Gordon Lightfoot's song, that came out in the 70's, so wow like I said before I didn't know it happened that recently!!!

Very sad!!!! Penny Lane/Marlene that was near you. It must have really touched your hearts! RIP all that were involved and God bless their families! That must have been a really rough time for them!!!

Yes, it touched all of us here. My former pastor, when he was a young man ,worked on that ship. I read that Gordon Lightfoot donated all the money/ royalties from that song to the families of the seamen who were lost. What a great guy! His song is so hauntingly poignant. I tear up every time that I hear it. I once stuck my foot in Lake Superior while on vacation in Canada and it was ice cold in August! RIP to all of the 29 men lost .


Undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau once stated that he preferred sailing the ocean . He said that the Great Lakes waves are short and choppy and more dangerous whereas the ocean waves are more rolling. But of course they can be treacherous too.

[Regulus]

Originally Posted by Penny Lane

I once stuck my foot in Lake Superior while on vacation in Canada and it was ice cold in August! RIP to all of the 29 men lost .

I was hiking on Isle Royale with a backpacking club in 1978. After setting up camp by the lakeside we had a "Polar Bear" contest to see who could stay in the water the longest. Most of the contestants didn't last five seconds. I was one of three winners, our leader called it a tie because we were in the water the longest (Still swimming after five minutes!

[Penny Lane]

Originally Posted by Regulus

I was hiking on Isle Royale with a backpacking club in 1978. After setting up camp by the lakeside we had a "Polar Bear" contest to see who could stay in the water the longest. Most of the contestants didn't last five seconds. I was one of three winners, our leader called it a tie because we were in the water the longest (Still swimming after five minutes!

Wow! I didn't get in past my foot!

[Ohio8]

Most of the ship's crew members, including Captain Ernest McSorley, were Toledo residents.

[Janice]

It's such a sad tragedy. The sea and the lakes can be very dangerous yet so many are drawn to them. I've always loved Gordon Lightfoot's song bout it. The part.....does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?....always gets to me.

Here, Gordon Lightfoot discusses the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_oWCgV2MJo

[Penny Lane]

Originally Posted by Janice

It's such a sad tragedy. The sea and the lakes can be very dangerous yet so many are drawn to them. I've always loved Gordon Lightfoot's song bout it. The part.....does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?....always gets to me.

Here, Gordon Lightfoot discusses the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_oWCgV2MJo

. In September, 2002 before the second concert of a two-night stand in Orillia, Lightfoot suffered severe stomach pain and was airlifted to McMaster Medical Centre in Hamilton, Ontario. He underwent surgery for a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm, and he remained in serious condition in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Lightfoot endured a six-week coma and a tracheotomy, and he underwent four surgical operations.[29] All of his remaining 2002 concert dates were canceled. More than three months after being taken to the McMaster Medical Center, Lightfoot was released in December to continue his recovery at home.

He is a shadow of his former self. He is still performing and considered Canada's National Treasure.God Bless You Gordon

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by Penny Lane

Please take a few minutes to listen on this page to Gordon Lightfoot's moving tribute. A masterpiece.

Yes Penny I have that song in analogue and I love it!!

Gordon was excellent in the 60s and 70s!!

[Penny Lane]

Originally Posted by Dude111

Yes Penny I have that song in analogue and I love it!!

Gordon was excellent in the 60s and 70s!!

Yes he was! My favorite songs are If You Could Read My Mind and Carefree Highway

[Bonniegirl]

Originally Posted by Penny Lane

Yes he was! My favorite songs are If You Could Read My Mind and Carefree Highway

I always loved Gordon Lightfoot! "If you could read my mind love" was his first hit right? I totally love that song , my sister had the 45 and played it all the time!! "Carefree Highway" was good too!!!! And OMG how about "Sundown"? That was an awesome song!!!

[Penny Lane]

Originally Posted by bonniegirl62

I always loved Gordon Lightfoot! "If you could read my mind love" was his first hit right? I totally love that song , my sister had the 45 and played it all the time!! "Carefree Highway" was good too!!!! And OMG how about "Sundown"? That was an awesome song!!!

All of his songs are awesome!

[Marvo301]

Gordon Lightfoot is indeed a Canadaian treasure! I think he's written some of the best lyrics ever and the music he wrote to go with them is pretty good too! His song about the "Edmund Fitzgerald" is just as poignant and stirring today as it was when he first wrote it!