[msb-alumni] Re: 40th Anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald

  • From: "Vickie" <happytraveler1972@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 14:27:19 -0700

BlankBea, its too big to send via email. It’s 16 plus megabytes big. You
don’t need drop box to retrieve. When your cursor is on the link, inside the
email, press your application key. Then go down to save target as, and press
enter. Then a box will come up for the save file, where you tab to the save
button and press enter, if you know where files are saved automatically on your
computer. If not, continue past the save button to the list of folders and
files within the saved folder. Then choose your folder, and go back to the
save button and press enter. It’s easy, if you don’t get it the first time,
try again. You definitely don’t have to have an account at drop box to get the
file, or just listen.
Vickie Rolison


From: Steve
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 12:44 PM
To: msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [msb-alumni] 40th Anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Ok, here is the song, a different version, listen to the end as it is really
touching.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/93478912/Brian%20Burns%20-%20Wreck%20of%20the%20Edmund%20Fitzgerald.mp3


40 years later, a wreck remembered By Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Forty years ago, on
Nov. 10, 1975, the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a ferocious storm on
Lake Superior, killing all 29 men aboard. The shipwreck was soon to be made
famous in the haunting song by Canadian songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, The Wreck
of the Edmund Fitzgerald, which was released the year after the sinking. In the
song, the disaster was blamed in part on the "Witch of November," which is the
source of memorable and fierce storms on the Great Lakes. "When the witch
angrily stirs her cauldron, no ship, no matter how large, is safe on the Great
Lakes," according to a 1998 article in Weatherwise magazine by meteorologist
Steve Horstmeyer and geographer Mace Bentley. The Edmund Fitzgerald remains the
largest of all the ships wrecked or sunk by bad weather in the Great Lakes.
Incredibly, in the past 300 years, about 30,000 people have died in 10,000
shipwrecks on the Great Lakes, the Rev. William Fleming told the Detroit News.
Fleming is the pastor of the Mariners' Church of Detroit, which was mentioned
in the Lightfoot song. The Edmund Fitzgerald was loaded with about 26,000 tons
of taconite pellets on Nov. 9, 1975, at Superior, Wis., and was bound for
Detroit. The pellets are a product in iron mining. As the season shifts toward
winter, the polar jet stream begins to shift south and can stir up storms that
produce howling winds and gigantic waves in November on the Great Lakes. This
makes it the most dangerous time of year for shipping, according to Bentley,
now a professor at James Madison University. On Sunday, a service was held at
the Mariners' Church to remember victims from all tragedies on the Great Lakes,
including the Fitzgerald -- one that even 40 years later, has been kept alive
by some indelible lyrics: "The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound When
the wave broke over the railing And every man knew, as the captain did too
'Twas the witch of November come stealin.' -- Gordon Lightfoot




Steve

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