Just got in from the library...Matthew has become interested in the Edmond Fitzgerald so we went and checked out some stuff. I'm glad too, because that is really a big part of Steve's history. His dad worked on a Taconite mine on the North Shore of Superior and oreboats like the EF were what carried the ore they mined! Steve grew up in a mining town. He was 13 years old when the EF went down. A guy from his hometown actually went down with it.
That song came out the year we were married, and we thought it was about some shipwreck from earlier in the century or something! We didn't know, for many years, that the wreck had only happened earlier in that year that the song was released!