Gordon Lightfoots tribute.
"Does anyone know where the love of God goes,
when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
The hair on my arms still tingles when I hear this song.
Paul in PA
> The hair on my arms still tingles when I hear this song.
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> Paul in PA
I've heard him sing it in concert...twice. 🙂
Still sends shivers, up and down, my spine.
Thanks Paul for posting this. It is good to remember.
Nate
Horrible tragedy. Love that song though.
At that time I was attending Mich Tech and I was living in a rental cabin on the shore of Portage Lake, which is in the middle of the Keweenaw Penninsula, which sticks up into Lake Superior. There is a canal connecting the open water to Keweenaw Bay.
Periodically, the freight boats would pass through, kind of as a shortcut so they didn't have to go all the way around the point near Copper Harbor. During this storm, there were about 5 freighters just "riding the storm out" for a day or so. At the time I thought it was odd, until I read about the Edmund Fitzgerald. I do know that it was one heck of a storm, but not that unusual that time of year for us folks on land.
I know I took a polaroid picture of them, but it is buried somewhere in my highly unorganized photo collection box. Maybe this weekend I'll dig it out.