May 4—OGDENSBURG — Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who died Monday at the age of 84, had several hit songs. But around the Great Lakes, none of his songs have surpassed the popularity of ...

One of the best-known shipwrecks of the 20th century took place north of Wisconsin involving a ship owned by a Milwaukee company, registered to Milwaukee and named for a Milwaukee board chairman — and ...

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 ...

(WXYZ) — Legendary Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot died Monday at the age of 84, and we're looking back at one of his most popular hits, "The Wreck of the ...

Nov. 1—Lewiston's annual Tribute to the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck will take on a special meaning this year. In recognition of Gordon Lightfoot, the writer of "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" ...

Reporter Jay Gabler taps into the enduring fascination with the Lake Superior tragedy in ‘Edmund Fitzgerald: 50 Years Below.’ ...

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 ...

DULUTH — When news broke of Gordon Lightfoot's death Monday at age 84, Minnesotans reading his obituaries may have been surprised to discover that "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976) wasn't ...

DULUTH — The guitar Gordon Lightfoot used to write "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," according to his longtime bassist, is being sold at auction along with several other items related to the late ...

DULUTH — Split Rock Lighthouse, which annually honors the lost crewmembers of the doomed Edmund Fitzgerald, will this time shine its light for Gordon Lightfoot — who captured the tale of the tragic ...

A guitar Gordon Lightfoot used to write "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" sold for $350,000, while other items related to that song went for four- and five-figure prices. A model of the Edmund ...

MICHIGAN, USA — Nearly fifty years after the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a deadly Lake Superior storm, a relay swim will symbolically finish the ship’s final journey in honor of the 29 men who never ...