There are two reasons you could observe the anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald year round…
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You could observe it anytime wherever Great Lakes Brewing Company beers are sold…
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Or…
“From 1875 to 1975, there were at least 6,000 commercial shipwrecks on the bottom of the Great Lakes,” [writer John U.] Bacon told NPR. “So that is one shipwreck a week every week for a century. That is one casualty every day for a century.”
via NPR