“The Legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee Superior, they said, never gives up her dead when the gales of November come early.” — Gordon Lightfoot

As I write this column, it is the 50th anniversary to the day — Nov. 10, 1975 — of the sinking on Lake Superior of the majestic Great Lakes freighter, Edmund Fitzgerald, amid the storm of the century. I only realized the connection as I finished this book.

Bestselling author and journalist John U. Bacon has crafted a remarkable chronicle, “The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” (Liveright, 484 pgs., $35 hardback).

Through the years numerous authors have tried to tell the story of the Edmund Fitzgerald, “but never has it been told better than by Mr. Bacon in this co

See Full Page