"Fellas, it's been good to know ya."

[postulater]

Remembering the Edmund Fitzgerald.

http://youtu.be/hgI8bta-7aw

[opihimoimoi]

1. Perfect storm for the disaster....RIP

[RandomThoughts]

2. The Tattle Tale part was a mod.

It fits into the same narrative as Usual Suspects. Where darkness does not like people that tell the truth if it reveals something done wrong. If for gossip, it is wrong, but if for concepts of better society, it makes sense.

The group that likes secrecy really does not like tattle tales. However that is transparency, and just showing what they are doing, and that is why they don't like it. If it effects society, and is hypocritical based on what they say they will do, then it makes sense that people that want public office should be shown for what they do.


They also use the 'witch' smear also part of the same things done by that group often.



(Side note, Usual Suspects got many things wrong. It flipped many things around, sort of like watching some on the news say things backwards from how they are originally said, a common thing to happen. It also got the name wrong.)

[Wickerman]

5. And later that night when the ships bell rang

Could it be the North Wind they'd been feeling?
:rofl:

[RandomThoughts]

15. Yep it is a song about storms.

It even has the women and children, not the men in it.

Also had the Hurricane west wind.
and Young mans Dreams

The 'Witch of November come steeling" Could be about steeled in the fire also.



Gordon Lightfoot was singing about many things.


"if they had put 15 more miles behind them."


Man the pumps, Man the pumps, Hoist the sails!

Through the storm!!!!!!!!!

Love Shack B-52s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leohcvmf8kM


Lake Hurion Rolls!!!!!!!!!! The Gales of November Remembered.



The Legend lives on!!!!!!!!!

[hlthe2b]

3. Gordon Lightfoot is coming to Denver for one night only...

Sold out before I even heard about it... He'd been in bad health in recent years and even during the Live 8 concert performances a few years back, seemed frail-- so I expect I may have missed my chance.

That song is one that resonates so strongly. I can hear it in my mind even years after last hearing it. What an enduring memorial to those 29 men.
Until that song, I really never thought of the Great Lakes as I would the dangerous Atlantic ocean. "Lake" somehow doesn't really convey the power. On Veterans Day, I think it appropriate to also think of those who have died working the dangerous jobs day to day.

[susanna]

7. I had to travel to Fort Wayne to see him a couple years back.

I'm in Detroit, but gladly made the trip for just the reasons you mentioned - I was afraid I'd never get to see him if I didn't. The EF was launched very close to my home. My neighbor's father helped build her. He has some wonderful photos of the ship in her heyday.

If you ever get to Michigan, try to get up to Whitefish Point and tour the Shipwreck Museum. Like you mentioned, many people don't think of the Great Lakes as all that dangerous, but that museum really brings it home. So many lost over hundreds of years. Treacherous waters under the right conditions.

RIP to all those lost on the EF, as well as on all the other ships who never made port on the Lakes.

[hlthe2b]

11. I'd like to... I did visit the museum in Halifax, Nova Scotia...

While it was the site that received the dead (and survivors) of the Titanic, the museum gives ample coverage to the countless shipwrecks of the centuries in that area. Really amazing. In fact the devastating explosion of a French cargo ship, fully loaded with wartime explosives in 1917 after it accidentally collided with another ship in the Halifax Harbor, had more focus, for obvious reasons. It all but devastated the city of Halifax. About 2,000 people were killed by debris, fires, or collapsed buildings and it is estimated that over 9,000 people were injured. This is still the world's largest man-made accidental explosion, yet I had never even heard about it. Those maritime museums really are fascinating.

[susanna]

13. I saw the Halifax one, too...

And you're right...how do we (and by that I mean most people) NOT know about the harbor explosion there? Amazing story. Just wow. What really got me in the graveyards was when I saw monuments to entire families killed on the same day (which I later found out was the port explosion). Still gives me chills.

I am a big maritime person...hubby is too. Whenever we're in a port city we try to check out any maritime exhibits/locations. Sounds like we're not alone. :)

[TexasObserver]

4. "Superior, they say, never gives up her dead when the gales of November come early."

[mzmolly]

9. Have you ever visisted Superior?

Here's a video that highlights a bit of its power.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiEfViHp61k

I love the lake, but it's as intimidating as it is beautiful. :hi:

[mzmolly]

6. I never visit superior without thinking about the

"Fitz" and its crew.

[Stinky The Clown]

8. One of the more evocative songs ever performed

You can feel the ice water cathedral. And you shiver.

[hlthe2b]

12. Isn't that the truth...

Lightfoot is surely among the most masterful folk singers in conveying his images.

[SidDithers]

10. K&R...nt

Sid

[Stinky The Clown]

14. He Sid, thanks for that poppy today

They used to be ubiquitous on Veteran's Day. Nice to see someone remembered them.