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It's Edmund Fitzgerald weekend (edit)

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Smasher_Sloan, Nov 12, 2006.

  1. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    Lake Superior is gorgeous ... a hidden gem most of America never sees.

    And Duluth is one of America's most underrated beautiful cities. One of the few downtowns were you can look down into it off the massive bluffs overlooking the region. And there's some sublime beauty in the massive industrial edifices of the ore industry. The Superior side is a dump, but it's kind of fascinating in that way.

    And Lightfoot's song is so moving. Great stuff.

    "Does any one know where the love of God goes
    When the waves turn the minutes to hours?
    The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
    If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her.
    They might have split up or they might have capsized;
    They may have broke deep and took water.
    And all that remains is the faces and the names
    Of the wives and the sons and the daughters."

    That verse in particular.
     
  2. Double J

    Double J Active Member

    My paternal grandfather, his older sister and their mother, my great-grandma, were all born in Marquette. It's a place I've always wanted to visit. Someday I'll get there. :)

    All of the Great Lakes, plus Georgian Bay and Lake St. Clair, can go from peacefully quiet to absolutely brutal in almost no time at all. It's part of their majesty.
     
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