Bells for the Edmund Fitzgerald victims to be livestreamed
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The 48th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald ship sinking will be memorialized next Friday at the Michigan Maritime Museum in South Haven beginning at 7 p.m.
In 1975, the largest ship sailing the Great Lakes took a tragic turn when the Fitzgerald sank into deep water on Lake Superior during a storm. The Nov. 10 shipwreck is known to be the largest sinking on the lake and claimed the lives of the entire 29 male crew members, a news release from the museum said.
The sinking was immortalized in song by Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot, who died on May 1.
In partnership with Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in the Upper Peninsula, the Michigan Maritime Museum will be livestreaming the ceremony from Whitefish Point in the R.B. Annis Gallery. The event, which is free to the public, will include a traditional ringing of the bell 30 times and a guest speaker. A display of special collections from the museum will also be on display and a curatorial specialist, Eric Harmsen will be on-site to answer any questions about the materials.
Doors will open in South Haven at 6 p.m. for museum members and at 6:30 p.m. for nonmembers.
On Nov. 15, the Michigan Maritime Museum will host the Working Waterfronts Lecture Series, for the Edmund Fitzgerald Investigations. Maritime historian Ric Mixter will be the guest speaker for this event.
Mixter will detail his 20 years of research into the Edmund Fitzgerald, also known as the mighty Fitz.
"Sharing the Fitzgerald story with Michigan's Maritime Museum is extremely special for me,” said Mixter. “The museum is dedicated to our amazing maritime past and I can't think of a better place to share what I have found about the Fitz."
The lecture will begin at 6:30 pm and tickets to attend are free for museum members and $10 for nonmembers.
This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Edmund Fitzgerald memorial, bell ringing to be livestreamed
