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CBalsagna t1_iu47tqb wrote

I love great lakes history, thanks for sharing this.

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maarzian t1_iu4z2fl wrote

You might enjoy “The mighty Fitz” by Edmund Fitzgerald, I didn’t grow up near the lakes and don’t know much about them but really enjoyed the book!

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BattleBlitz t1_iu533yk wrote

I don’t think it’s by Edmund Fitzgerald I believe that’s the ship the book is about.

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CandyCoatedDinosaurs t1_iu55reo wrote

It's an autobiography.

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rabbitpantherhybrid t1_iu5w8kl wrote

It's not a car, it would be a shipbiography.

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Krom1244 t1_iu62p8g wrote

This is objectively hilarious and I'm sad no one else has noticed it yet.

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zooropa42 t1_iu6c66d wrote

We've all noticed but are keeping our poker faces on 😂

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MalteseFalcon7 t1_iu549z2 wrote

I think it's a song, actually.

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tell_her_a_story t1_iu58ihv wrote

The ship is the Edmund Fitzgerald, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a song about the ship by Gordon Lightfoot. "The Mighty Fitz" is a book about the loss of the ship, Edmund Fitzgerald.

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MalteseFalcon7 t1_iu594sl wrote

I'm pretty sure the singer is Edmund Fitzgerald, about a ship name Gordon Lightfoot, and the Mighty Fitz is an album by Fitz and the Tantrums... jk

Very haunting song, and history though.

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CBalsagna t1_iu53s4b wrote

As a clevelander, I’m a fan of that story and that beer! Shame so many lost their lives but that story is what started my interest in shipwrecks and the Great Lakes. To anyone unfamiliar they are right!

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BlizzardZHusky t1_iu7m6ni wrote

I found it pretty hard to follow. Kinda falls apart somewhere around the middle.

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dadams2217 t1_iu71yx7 wrote

I was kid in 1975 and back then my family had a boat that we sailed on the Great Lakes. One of my lasting memories from those days was seeing the Edmund Fitzgerald the summer before it sank. It was easy to remember the Edmund because of its unique name and, as the song says, “it was bigger than most”.

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katgarbagesack t1_iu7a90c wrote

If you’re a YouTube person (rather than a book person like other commenters) check out the Maritime Horrors channel. They talk about ships that sank or had some other crazy thing happen to them, and actually a lot of the videos happen to be Great Lakes cases. Like way more than you’d expect actually given that there’s so many other bodies of water in the world lol but they’re interesting.

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