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Podcast: For The Love Of Duluth
Episode: 92. Bestselling Author John U. Bacon On The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
Description: The SS Edmund Fitzgerald is one of the most famous shipwrecks in maritime history, record-breaking in many ways during its short life, a fact that is now overshadowed by its story. The freighter sank in Lake Superior on November 10th of 1975 while transporting more than 26,000 tons of cargo from the Burlington Northern Railroad Dock in Superior to Zug Island, and remains at the bottom of the great lake today. While the story of its fateful wreck has been immortalized in dozens of songs, books, publications and documentaries throughout history, few have been as triumphant as John U. Bacon’s la...