Great Lakes are dangerous

This past week a Cessna 206 carrying a cancer patient and his wife, their Michigan doctor and another man, lost power over Lake Michigan and plunged into the water enroute to the Mayo Clinic.  Four perished, but the pilot of the airplane was rescued.  In the flight's final minutes/moments, the doctor was able to write a goodbye note to survivors, and tuck it into his medical bag.

Nearly 34 years ago, on another Great Lake, Superior, the "Mighty Fitz" freighter, SS Edmund Fitzgerald, hit by a rogue wave in a November gale, sank and broke in two, carrying 29 sailors to their final rest.  The tragic tale was immortalized by Canadian singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot in 1976, arguably the foremost Top-40 music hit about a maritime disaster.

On Sunday, August 1, you can hear Wreck of the Emund Fitzgerald, and other Lightfoot classics, Carefree Highway, For Lovin' Me, Early Mornin' Rain, Sundown, on the KERA/13 telecast of Live In Reno, 7:00p.

Tune in, eh?