1975 and 50 years seems so long ago, I was just a 10 year old kid.
“ Fifty years later, the legend of the Edmund Fitzgerald lives on”
In Toledo, the National Museum of the Great Lakes has several events scheduled, including a tribute concert at the Valentine Theater by Meredith Moon, daughter of Canadian songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, whose mournful ballad “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” was a billboard hit in 1976.
Two stanzas in particular captured the mystery and emotion that still linger in America’s collective consciousness, long after the bell at the Mariners’ Church in Detroit first rang - 29 times - for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2025/11/fifty-years-later-the-legend-of-the-edmund-fitzgerald-lives-on.html
