Edmund Fitzgerald

Date 11-14-05

NIGHT WATCH FOR THE EDMUND FITZGERALD

On Thursday November 10, 2005 the Dossin Great Lakes Museum and the Great Lakes Maritime Institute will hold a special remembrance for the 30th Anniversary of the loss of the Great Lakes freighter S. S. Edmund Fitzgerald. From 4:30 - 8:00 pm that evening events will recall that sailors who sail the inland seas, are sometimes placed in peril. The events will begin at 4:30 by placing of 29 illuminated lanterns around the anchor of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald that rests in the yard of the Dossin Museum on Belle Isle. At 5:00 pm the Great Lakes balladeer Lee Murdock will begin a concert in the DeRoy Hall Auditorium. His songs of the Great Lakes sailors and their sail and steam vessels have long been a remembrance of the difficulties working the inland seas. At 6:30 pm Captain Donald Erickson of the Ford Fleet will recount the night 30 years prior that his crew of the S.S. William Clay Ford went into the stormy seas north of White Fish Point to search for and survivors of the lost Fitzgerald. At 7:10 pm the names of the lost crew members will be read and ship's bells will be tolled. This will be followed by Bishop Ingalls of Mariner's Church whose ringing of the church bells is part of Gordon Lightfoot's famous ballad on the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

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