Jessica Mathews / [email protected] Events are planned this weekend to honor the 50-year anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund ...

First come the mournful notes - an electric guitar layered over a 12-string acoustic. Then come the haunting lyrics.

The church immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot’s song still tolls 29 bells each November to honor the crew of the Edmund ...

Without Gordon Lightfoot’s song, the Edmund Fitzgerald could have faded from memory along with the names of the roughly 6,500 ...

Here in the Mariners’ Church, planted in the shadow of the Renaissance Center at the corner of Woodbridge Street and Woodward Avenue, the gales of November seem to swirl in the air.

The Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot and the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald are inextricably linked in a way few ...

As the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald's sinking approaches, Detroit's Mariner's Church remains a poignant symbol ...