Relic from the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is returned, plus $600,000 from Michigan

The state of Michigan has agreed to return a life ring from the famous Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck to its owner.

A Rare Artifact From the Edmund Fitzgerald Is at the Heart of a Bizarre Legal Battle

A life ring from the famed SS Edmund Fitzgerald is now in the possession of the state of Michigan after an “unusual” legal ...
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A wreck apart: 50 years later, the Edmund Fitzgerald legend endures

A half century after the Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, the ship has become more than a wreck. It’s a grave and a legend ...

Retired AP reporter helped cement the legend of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

In a recent interview with The Associated Press, retired reporter Harry Atkins recounts his experience covering the wreck of ...

Gordon Lightfoot's ‘Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' Sees Massive Streams & Sales Gains on 50th Anniversary of Titular Disaster

This week's Trending Up looks at the unlikely revival of the five-decade-old story song, as well as a curious new dance smash ...

'It was meant to be filler': Story of Gordon Lightfoot's 'Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'

Gordon Lightfoot and his band recorded the "little ditty" in a Toronto studio in December 1975, just weeks after the shipwreck that took 29 lives.

Without the song, 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' may have been largely forgotten

Without Gordon Lightfoot’s song, the Edmund Fitzgerald could have faded from memory along with the names of the roughly 6,500 other ships that went down in the Great Lakes before it ...

Gordon Lightfoot’s Haunting Tribute: How ‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’ Became His Finest Work

Gordon Lightfoot turned a brief news item about a Great Lakes tragedy into one of the most haunting songs ever written — an elegy that still echoes 50 years later.