The Day The Edmund Fitzgergald Sank - 11 10 75 - A Ludington Perspective

On Nov. 10, 1975 a storm made its way north over Lake Michigan creating waves that easily crashed over the 57-foot high Ludington North Breakwater Lighthouse. Winds were so strong that bricks fell off buildings. Later that day, that storm front would collide with two other fronts just over White Fish Point on the shores of Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula, causing the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald and the loss of her 29 crew members. Ludington-based journalists Todd Reed and Vans Stevenson captured the storm as it hit Mason County, resulting in the creation of one of Reed's most iconic images. Fifty years later, the two met with Mason County Press Editor-in-Chief Rob Alway at the Port of Ludington Maritime Museum, the former Ludington Coast Guard Station, to discuss the events of that day. Please consider a contribution to Great Lakes History Log? buymeacoffee.com/mediagroup31