WHITEFISH TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The Great Lakes Shipwreck
Museum in the eastern Upper Peninsula is hosting a memorial service
honoring the 29 men who sank with the Edmund Fitzgerald in a Lake
Superior gale 36 years ago.
The 16th annual commemoration is
Thursday at 7 p.m. The 729-foot ore carrier sank in 1975, about 17 miles
north-northwest of Whitefish Point.
The museum is at Whitefish Point in Chippewa County’s Whitefish Township, about 35 miles northwest of
Sault Ste. Marie.
The Evening News of Sault Ste. Marie says (http://j.mp/sioEsR ) this year’s ceremony features the
ringing of a bell, plus remarks by
Dennis Hale. He’s the sole survivor of the 1966 sinking of the Daniel J.
Morrell.
Music is by Mike Fornes and his Gordon Lightfoot tribute band, "Whispers of the North."
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Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.
WHITEFISH TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The Great Lakes Shipwreck
Museum in the eastern Upper Peninsula is hosting a memorial service
honoring the 29 men who sank with the Edmund Fitzgerald in a Lake
Superior gale 36 years ago.
The 16th annual commemoration is
Thursday at 7 p.m. The 729-foot ore carrier sank in 1975, about 17 miles
north-northwest of Whitefish Point.
The museum is at Whitefish Point in Chippewa County’s Whitefish Township, about 35 miles northwest of
Sault Ste. Marie.
The Evening News of Sault Ste. Marie says (http://j.mp/sioEsR ) this year’s ceremony features the
ringing of a bell, plus remarks by
Dennis Hale. He’s the sole survivor of the 1966 sinking of the Daniel J.
Morrell.
Music is by Mike Fornes and his Gordon Lightfoot tribute band, "Whispers of the North."
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Online:
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.
