# It's Edmund Fitzgerald Day **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 10, 2015, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-edmund-fitzgerald-day/737205 "2015-11-10T16:57:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-edmund-fitzgerald-day/737205/1 "2015-11-10T16:57:00Z")
Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn minutes to hours? [the song, of course](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-edmund-fitzgerald-day/737205/2 "2015-11-10T16:58:32Z")
You out on the shores of Lake Gitche Gumee? ETA: The Cleveland Science Museum down on the Lakefront has a Iron boat docked and avaialble for tours. Which is pretty neat. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-edmund-fitzgerald-day/737205/3 "2015-11-10T16:59:36Z")
Fixed thread title. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-edmund-fitzgerald-day/737205/4 "2015-11-10T17:02:03Z")
What was it? ELLA Fitzgerald Day? ---
**Author:** ![CT\_Damsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-edmund-fitzgerald-day/737205/5 "2015-11-10T17:03:54Z")
I loves me some Gordon Lightfoot! ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-edmund-fitzgerald-day/737205/6 "2015-11-10T17:05:57Z")
Are the gales of November coming early again? ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-edmund-fitzgerald-day/737205/7 "2015-11-10T17:07:28Z")
As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most… ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-edmund-fitzgerald-day/737205/8 "2015-11-10T17:12:57Z")
I don’t exactly ‘look forward’ to this thread every year. “Looking forward” implies almost but not quite exactly the correct sentiment. I guess what I mean to say is that I am gratified that this board remembers the event every year in the board’s own special way. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-edmund-fitzgerald-day/737205/9 "2015-11-10T17:20:54Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Fixed thread title. Thank you, **Loach**. It’s been good to know ya. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-edmund-fitzgerald-day/737205/10 "2015-11-10T17:33:56Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > I don’t exactly ‘look forward’ to this thread every year. “Looking forward” implies almost but not quite exactly the correct sentiment. I guess what I mean to say is that I am gratified that this board remembers the event every year in the board’s own special way. Well, for 20 minutes give or take anyway until the driver gets distracted by all the eels in the hovercraft and it explodes in a gigantic fireball as it goes flying into the quarry. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-edmund-fitzgerald-day/737205/11 "2015-11-10T17:39:50Z")
I was waiting for a rewrite of the song for the freighter that went down last month, the El Faro - there seemed to be so many similarities. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-edmund-fitzgerald-day/737205/12 "2015-11-10T17:53:32Z")
I’ll be ringing my old schoolhouse bell on the shore of Lake Michigan this evening to mark the occasion. 29 times for the Edmund Fitz. On November 18th, it’ll ring 33 times for the Carl D. Bradley, which sunk a little closer to my beach. The Mercotans were never ore boat sailors, but my ancestors plied the waters of the North Sea and Lake Michigan making a living in search of fish. More than a few drowned doing that. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-edmund-fitzgerald-day/737205/13 "2015-11-10T18:40:30Z")
If you want to follow along, the National Weather Service in Marquette ‘live’ tweets the conditions as they were 40 years ago. [https://twitter.com/NWSMarquette](https://twitter.com/NWSMarquette) ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-edmund-fitzgerald-day/737205/14 "2015-11-10T18:48:40Z")
A cousin of mine worked on ships on the Great Lakes as an engineer. He once was on the Edmund Fitzgerald, but not when it sank. ---
**Author:** ![davida03801](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5e925/32.png) [@davida03801](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davida03801)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-edmund-fitzgerald-day/737205/15 "2015-11-10T19:18:59Z")
Did you know the lake never gives up her dead ? ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-edmund-fitzgerald-day/737205/16 "2015-11-10T20:01:42Z")
As someone who grew up along the shores of the great lake ‘that steams like a young man’s dreams’ and who is the several-times-great-granddaughter of Massachusetts whalers, I always take a moment of silence on the anniversary of the great wrecks. They were as near to heaven by sea as by land. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-edmund-fitzgerald-day/737205/17 "2015-11-10T20:40:13Z")
> [@robert\_columbia](#): > > Are the gales of November coming early again? Supposedly, yes. We’re due for some really nasty weather in the Midwest tomorrow, although I’m not sure whether or how it will impact the Great Lakes. ---
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-edmund-fitzgerald-day/737205/18 "2015-11-10T20:40:50Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > I’ll be ringing my old schoolhouse bell on the shore of Lake Michigan this evening to mark the occasion. 29 times for the Edmund Fitz. > > On November 18th, it’ll ring 33 times for the Carl D. Bradley, which sunk a little closer to my beach. > > The Mercotans were never ore boat sailors, but my ancestors plied the waters of the North Sea and Lake Michigan making a living in search of fish. More than a few drowned doing that. Thank you for that. Little realized how dangerous these Great Lakes can be. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-edmund-fitzgerald-day/737205/19 "2015-11-10T21:05:56Z")
> [@Cabin\_Fever](#): > > Thank you for that. > Little realized how dangerous these Great Lakes can be. That’s for sure. [Lake Michigan takes another life](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12558639&postcount=1). I ring the bell for her too. We never did recover her body. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-edmund-fitzgerald-day/737205/20 "2015-11-10T21:30:56Z")
Most summer weekends, as a teenager, I swam in Lake Huron. I don’t mind seeing this thread every year. The Great Lakes are magnificent bodies of water. It’s the 40th anniversary today. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-edmund-fitzgerald-day/737205.md?page=2)