Descriptions of the construction progress of my new Florida model railroad featuring the line from Lakeland to Punta Gorda. Originally a journal of RV trips throughout the United States and Canada with Patti and Bob. Also photo documentation of the progress on my Maryland model railroad, the Allegheny and Shenandoah, a mythical class one line connecting Strasburg VA. with Elkins WV.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior
The eastern end of Lake Superior has a shallow bay made famous by Gordon Lightfoot in his song the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The ship sank just 15 miles from the safety of this bay.
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The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they called "Gitche Gumee."
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy.
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty,
that good ship and true was a bone to be chewedwhen the "Gales of November" came early....
Does any one know where the love of God goeswhen the waves turn the minutes to hours?
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay if they'd put fifteen more miles behind 'er.
They might have split up or they might have capsized;they may have broke deep and took water.
And all that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters....
In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed,in the "Maritime Sailors' Cathedral."
The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
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