[Diana in Wisconsin]

Good Evening Wisconsin Conservative Politics Ping List Members. Just a reminder that Wisconsin lost a lot of brave men thirty years ago, this day.

[beckett]

Gordon Lightfoot immortalized this tragedy with a song that has remained a favorite of mine over many decades.

[Professional Engineer]

Edmund Fitzgerald

Gordon Lightfoot: Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

[MplsSteve]

Here's a link if you want read more about the bell:

http://www.ssefo.com/info/bellrestore.html

I think it'd be quite interesting to be at the bell ringing tonight and be that close to a real part of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

[MplsSteve]

I came across another link that should appeal to most of you today:

http://www.shipwreckmuseum.com/

Go to this site and watch a live webcast of the bell ringing at 6PM Eastern Time

[ecurbh]

Ping.

When I was in the U.P of Michigan with my folks several years ago, I was hoping to go to the museum at Whitefish Point, but we ended up not having time.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The bell is considered the soul of the ship.

[Pontiac]

Bump for the sailors who didn't come home to the wives and the sons and the daughters.

[wingnut1971]

The museum is near my home and I took my nephews there in Sept. Awesome place. BTW, I was grocery shopping the other day and saw the Arthur M. Anderson at the Soo Locks. (she was behind the Fitz on the night she went down)

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

They brought the bell back but the bodies remain on the wreck.

Note I said bodies not bones. The water is so cold that the normal decay is not happening.

:shiver: Learning that creeped me out for some reason.

[nutmeg]

bttt

[Mrs Zip]

ping

[Watery Tart]

....fellas, it's too rough to feed ya! ping!

I had to have the song go through my head all day....

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*useless-but-interesting trivia:

DID YOU KNOW...that the Edmund Fitzgerald was named after the Milwaukee harbormaster?