Organizers of the annual Edmund Fitzgerald memorial ceremony at Split Rock Lighthouse on Minnesota’s North Shore say next month’s event is now sold out — with record-breaking attendance expected on the 50th anniversary of the wreck.

The Minnesota Historical Society said Monday that it has sold 2,000 in-person tickets for the Nov. 10 beacon-lighting and commemoration ceremony.

The memorial observance at the historic lighthouse is held each Nov. 10, on the anniversary of the 1975 sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in a Lake Superior gale, with the loss of all 29 men aboard.

The late-afternoon event includes a reading of the names of the lost crew as a bell rings 29 times. After that, the bell is rung once more to remember all lost mariners. As daylight fades, the beacon of the lighthouse is

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