GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Edmund James Fitzgerald comes from a long line of Edmund Fitzgeralds. His father was named James Edmund Fitzgerald, and his grandfather was Edmund McCarron Fitzgerald.

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For the past several years, a Gordon Lightfoot song from 1976 has become an unlikely seasonal meme. The song, of course, is “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” a mournful ballad of the true story of ...

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