Greatly Exaggerated

[filkertom]

The Intertubes were a-Twitter this morning with rumors about the death of Canadian folk music legend Gordon Lightfoot. It even made it to the mainstream press.

Tain't so. Gordon's fine.

What are your favorite Lightfoot songs? There are all the obvious ones -- it's not like the guy's not a hit machine -- but I've got a huge warm spot in my heart for "Don Quixote".

(Dammit, I just listened to that performance again, and I'm tearing up. Sometime, it's not gonna be a rumor, and that will hurt. Stay well, Mr. Lightfoot.)

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The "Maritime Sailors Cathedral" is the Mariners' Church of Detroit, on Jefferson Avenue near Detroit's riverfront. The church still holds a memorial service every year for the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and yes, the bell tolls 29 times.



The Dossin Great Lakes Museum on Belle Isle in Detroit has a memorial to the Edmund Fitzgerald, which includes the ship's anchor that was retrieved a few years ago. It also has an exhibit about the wreck, including a model that shows exactly how the pieces of the ship lie on the lake bed, which I find seriously creepy.