The bell from the Edmund Fitzgerald located at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. - Dreamstime/Dreamstime/TNS
DETROIT — The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society is mourning the death of Gordon Lightfoot, a Canadian folk singer-songwriter whose hit "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" commemorates the 1975 Lake Superior shipwreck. The society called Lightfoot, who passed away Monday night in a Toronto Hospital, more than just a star. He was was a friend, they said. "To him, 'Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,' was more than just a hit song he wrote," they said in a post on Facebook. "Gordon truly cared about the families of that tragedy. That was proven in 2015 when he came to Whitefish Point for the ...
