In 1976, music thrived in diversity, with Gordon Lightfoot's haunting ballad about a shipwreck and McCartney's playful love ...

Jerry Popiel, a Coast Guard member and Cleveland musician, wrote a song about the “Marine Electric” disaster that killed 31 people. The ship had inspired another songwriter to write a song, but he ...

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'Jeopardy!' had a mistake in a clue involving a lyric of Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." Online sleuths spotted the error about the home ...

Tucked away in the middle of the woods and accessible only by Northern Michigan backroads lives a quintessential up north dive bar called The Hideaway. It’s big with snowmobilers in the winter — hence ...

FEATURE: Fifty years after the freighter vanished in a November storm, the families left behind — ‘the wives and the sons and the daughters’ — say their faith in Christ has carried them through every ...

This fall, trending topics have taken an unexpected turn. Instead of pumpkin spice lattes or football, the internet is talking about a decades-old shipwreck. Social media has been packed with posts ...

The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald likely has become the most widely known shipwreck in North America, thanks to singer Gordon Lightfoot. It was in 1976 when Lightfoot released “The Wreck of the ...

DETROIT (AP) — The state of Michigan is giving up ownership of a rare relic from the famous Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck, just weeks after it strangely obtained it through a settlement in a lawsuit ...

CLEVELAND — Fifty years ago this month, the Great Lakes reminded us of their power — and their peril. On Nov. 10, 1975, the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald vanished beneath the icy waters of Lake Superior. All ...