News 8 is producing a series of stories that will be published in the days leading up to Nov. 10, the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It will culminate with a WOOD TV+ special called: “The Fitz: 50 Years Later.” That will air at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 10.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The night the Edmund Fitzgerald sank, Gordon Lightfoot was in his attic, beginning the song that would go on to immortalize that fateful evening.
Lightfoot himself was an avid recreational sailor, and as the winds howled in Toronto, his thoughts were with the Great Lakes as he worked on the melody of a sea shanty, Michigan author John Bacon said…