The 48th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald is this month, and the Michigan Maritime Museum in South Haven is holding two events to mark the occasion.
Museum Education Director Ashley Deming tells us the wreck is legendary, largely thanks to the Gordon Lightfoot song, and also because it’s relatively recent.
“We’re happy to be able to share that, commemorate the anniversary of the sinking as well as remember those lives lost and the many lives that have been lost on the Great Lakes,” Deming said.
Deming says the Maritime Museum will host a livestream of a ceremony taking place in the U.P. on November 10, the anniversary of the sinking.
“We are commemorating the actual anniversary of the sinking of the Fitz, and we’re doing that in partnership with the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum up at Whitefish Point. They have a virtual ceremony that they do and we’ll be livestreaming that here at our campus.”
The event will be at 7 p.m. and the public is invited. It’s free.
Deming says the museum will also host guest speaker Ric Mixter for “The Edmund Fitzgerald Investigations” on November 15. She tells us he’s one of the top researchers of the wreck, and he’ll share a wealth of photos and stories. That event will be $10 for non-members of the museum to attend. It starts at 6:30 on the 15th.
