Thanks. Whenever I drive up to Lake Superior during November I listen to the song and wonder how well-known it is elsewhere.
The event and song were known to me in the 70s in Kansas City and surrounding area.
In 1990 when I took a Boy Scout Troop to Moose Lake (C. Summers Canoe Base) we stopped a Split Rock Light House and its great museum or all the Superior shipping, storms and ship wrecks. That is worth a trip in and of itself.
I was a USAF barracks chief at Keesler AFB, Mississippi and the song resonated with the men in my barracks. Two of the airmen were from the area where the Edmund Fitzgerald sailed and knew several of the men lost on it. It was quite eerie. Whenever I hear the song I think of those boys from Michigan.