25 Funny Tweets About How The Midwest Remembers The Edmund Fitzgerald
Growing up in Michigan, I picked up enough Great Lakes trivia to make a car ride feel a lot longer than it needed to be. I couldn’t tell you what I got on my seventh-grade history final, but if Gordon Lightfoot comes on, I’m in the zone.
On November 10, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, and all 29 crew members died. Fifty-one years later, the anniversary still means something around the Great Lakes.
On Midwest Twitter, it also means that for one day, you can know an unusual amount about iron ore and be among friends.
Here’s how the timeline marked the day.
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