Today, they rung the bell 29 times plus an additional 1. 48 yearshttps://t.co/JqDCqO3LOh
— 𝕰𝖒𝖎𝖑𝖞 🏳️⚧️☭ (@SwordNDaStone) November 10, 2023
Forty-Eight Years Ago Today
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
God be with all of you.
Gordon too.
Lightfoot’s best songwriting was when he wrote about actual historical events. Besides the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, there was another shipwreck song he wrote about the cruise ship Yarmouth Castle, that caught fire and capsized e route from Miami to the Bahamas back in 1965. He never recorded that song in the studio. He recorded it live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4cAnMZc79U
Another song Gordon wrote about a historical even was Black Day in July about the 1967 Detroit riots.
https://youtu.be/L07TKGjseyg?si=yDrdvmDtQ5Thi4sI
I saw the Edmund Fitzgerald pass through the Soo locks several years before the sinking. Sad day when it went down. I remember it well. And thanks to Gordon Lightfoot. may he RIP.
I was a 12 year old kid when.this happened.