Gordon Lightfoot wrote one of the most iconic songs about a historical event, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Lake Superior Nov. 10, 1975, and killed all 29 men aboard. It's a modern maritime tragedy that ...

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 ...

David James Carlson leads the Gordon Lightfoot Tribute Band. He knew the late singer-songwriter personally, and remembers ...

DETROIT - It's an evocative song that defies description: haunting yet comforting, wistful yet powerful, mythic yet real. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was among Gordon Lightfoot's greatest hits, ...

Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 folk ballad told the true story of a shipwreck on Lake Superior. One of his old friends called it “a documentarian’s song.” By Mike Ives Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian folk ...

Michiganders remembered Gordon Lightfoot, a Canadian folk singer who died Monday at 84 and who told stories through song, one of the best known being "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," an unlikely ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald went down 50 years ago on a stormy November night. Relatives and the public are set to remember those ...

Terrence Tysall set a record scuba diving to the Edmund Fitzgerald. Ric Mixter dove in a submersible, finding a missing body. Here are their stories.

The bell of the Edmund Fitzgerald on display at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Paradise, Michigan. The bell was recovered in 1995 at the request of family members of the victims as a way to have ...

November 10th marks the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, perhaps the most famous of all the estimated 6,500 ships that have gone down in the Great Lakes.