American History

There are artifacts from that giant ore ship.

I was living up in North Dakota then, my daughter was 7 months old then. I read the headlines the next day in the Grand Forks Herald about the sinking.

We were then living here in Minnesota by the time the song came out. Chilling and still harrowing to this day 48 years later.

It was July of 1979 when in Milwaukee, my husband and I were at Summerfest there along Lake Michigan. We took in the Gordon Lightfoot concert. Dusk was setting in when he and the band broke into the song. I had the goosebumps all through it as I looked out onto the Lake to see Sailboats and Ore Tankers off into the horizon. I will never forget that moment.