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In reply to the discussion: 42 years ago today: The gales of November came crashing [View all]ewagner
(18,964 posts)...I was being interviewed for a job in the City of Ashland, Wisconsin...it was raining and blowing hard in Ashland but 70 or so miles north, on Lake Superior, the waves were like mountains and the Edmund Fitzgerald was being pelted with freezing rain.
I returned with my wife to our lodging a little after 7 PM and turned on the TV...the Duluth weather forecaster was giving a special report on the storm when he was handed a note...it was a release of a radio message from the Captain of the ore carrier Anderson...stating that the lights of the Fitzgerald (a few miles ahead of the Anderson) had disappeared....they feared the worst.
I learned that there were Ashland men aboard "The Fitz". There is a mural in downtown Ashland that has paintings of three of the Ashland men who were aboard the Fitz that night
I lived in Ashland for 10 years after that night...became Mayor of the City for four of those years. Every November 10 that rolls around reminds me of that night...Gordon Lightfoot's song still brings tears to my eyes.