Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald wreck: Listen to a reenactment tonight

Any Midwest follower of social media knows the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald lives in our heads as much as reveries about the Roman Empire, and WCCO Radio in Minneapolis has a chance to re-live the historic and horrific event with a live radio play tonight.

Listen at 9 p.m. on your smart speaker, phone, desktop, TuneIn, iHeart or Audacy app. And if you miss it live, don’t worry! You can rewind to the show on Audacy’s player, either on app or desktop.

Anyone who needs evidence that we still care just needs to start a sentence “The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake, they called Gitche Gumee …” and if the person you’re talking to doesn’t hum Gordon Lightfoot or tell you about what happens “when the skies of November turn gloomy” they’re probably best known as ex friends. (We joke!)…

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