The Enduring Legacy of Gordon Lightfoot.

Kathleen M. McSorley, an Ogdensburg resident, remembers her uncle, Capt. Ernest M. McSorley, who was the captain of the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 729-foot ore carrier that sank in Canadian waters on Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975. The sinking inspired Gordon Lightfoot's hit song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." McSorley has several items of memorabilia to mark the tragedy and to recall her uncle. The restored bell of the Edmund Fitzgerald is on display at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum as a memorial to the lost crew and is used each Nov. 10 in a bell-ringing ceremony at the museum in memory of the 29 crewmen.