A Light For Gordon


The beacon on the Split Rock Lighthouse in Two Harbors shone bright Wednesday night. It was decommissioned in 1969 but is always lit on November 10th to honour the 29 lives lost on that day in 1975 when the lake freighter Edmund Fitzgerald was sunk in a stormy gale. On Wednesday it was lit to honour Canadian folk music legend Gordon Lightfoot, who died Monday at age 84. Lightfoot's song The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald told the story of the Lake Superior shipwreck.

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