Outagamie County Executive publishes book on Edmund Fitzgerald

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - Monday marks the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

The most famous shipwreck on the Great Lakes, the massive iron ore freighter went down in a November storm on Lake Superior. The wreck was immortalized in a hit song By Gordon Lightfoot.

The exact cause of the wreck is still debated, and a new perspective is offered in this new book “Wrecked: The Edmund Fitzgerald and the Sinking of the American Economy,” co-authored by Lawrence University Professor Jerald Podair...and a familiar face in Northeast Wisconsin.

The “Fitz” has strong ties to Sturgeon Bay; it spent many winters at Bay Shipbuilding for repairs, and two Sturgeon Bay natives were among the 29 men lost in the wreck.

One of them is connected to another anniversary that will take p