Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Released in August 1976, less than a year after the tragedy, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” appeared on Lightfoot’s ...

It happened every year on November 10: if you were listening to the radio anywhere in Michigan, you’d inevitably hear the wail of a guitar that seemed to speak in a human voice, a mournful invitation.

An article about the Edmund Fitzgerald in Newsweek magazine and a wire service story are believed to have inspired Gordon Lightfoot to write his song. The song was released in August 1976 and had ...

Most songs about historical events are written many years after the events themselves. It takes a while to know what events will be consequential and which ones will fade from memory. The Edmund ...

A stern shot of the Edmund Fitzgerald taken in the St. Marys River not long before she sank. When it comes to staying informed in Minnesota, our newsletters overdeliver. Sign-up now for headlines, ...

Spend enough time along the shores of Lake Superior and it won’t be long before there’s some reminder of what happened “when the gales of November came early.” This year marks the 50th anniversary of ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Associated Press reporter Harry Atkins was far from Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, “when the gales of November came early.” But his news coverage the following day of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Even among recent unlikely bringback streaming hits, few could’ve seen this one coming. “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” the ...

Without Gordon Lightfoot’s ballad, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald might have faded into history alongside thousands of other Great Lakes wrecks. He was inspired to write the song after reading the first ...

JSO Corrections Officer Mary Malcom and her family rebuilt the memorial that commemorates the three victims of the racially motivated shooting. LANSING, Mich. – Associated Press reporter Harry Atkins ...

Solar array wing-mounted cameras capture close-up images of NASA’s Orion spacecraft during a routine external inspection on the sixth day into the Artemis II mission. At the time this photo was taken ...