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The Great Lakes have given us much pleasure and our fair share of tragedy. In the days of steam and sail, locally, were a tragic sinking just off the shore in Willowick, Ohio. There is a park now, overlooking the site...it is a favorite place to view the sunset over the lake, and I used to go there frequently. A few miles east of here is my favorite beach...also some of my favorite restaurants. In the early 1900s a dynamite explosion in the harbor killed many and nearly destroyed the small town. But in the modern era, few tragic moments eclipsed the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior, here told in song by Gordon Lightfoot. If you have heard it before, enjoy again...if you have not heard it before, I hope it awakens in you the desire to learn more about your local history...
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 13:22:50 +0000

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