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Thoughts on Gordon Lightfoot

The troubadour of the Great Lakes

Bob Dolgan
May 5, 2023
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The SS Edmund Fitzgerald, largest freighter on the lakes, sunk in Lake Superior three weeks after this author was born. Only Gordon Lightfoot could pen a poignant and haunting song about the event mere months afterward. It’s hard to imagine anything similar happening today, where a tragedy, an artist, and a song could quickly converge and something coul…

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