#TheMoment Mariner's Church rings their bell 30 times for Gordon Lightfoot

[Ilsa]

3. What a kind thing to do. Yes, as the song goes:

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed
In the maritime sailors' cathedral
The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early.

Yes, it is lovely that they chime one time more for Gordon Lightfoot.

I remember the sinking when it happened, and a documentary about it many years later. The song keeps the tragedy alive.