TOLEDO, Ohio — Fifty years ago, the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank beneath the waves of Lake Superior, taking all 29 crew members with it.
On Sunday night, the National Museum of the Great Lakes in Toledo honored those lives and the stories that continue to echo across generations.
At exactly 7:20 p.m., the tolling of a bell filled the museum 29 times, once for every man aboard the Fitzgerald. Among those listening was Tom Walton, who has deep family ties to the ship…