40th Anniversary Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Ceremony

Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum’s 40th Anniversary Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial Ceremony marks the loss of the Fitz on Nov. 10, 1975, near Whitefish Point. The memorial starts at 7 p.m. in the Shipwreck Museum Main Gallery Building and includes music, reflections and Call to the Last Watch Ceremony when the bell is tolled 29 times for each crew member, plus a 30th time for all mariners lost on the Great Lakes. Maritime author-historian Frederick Stonehouse will speak. The public is invited to attend and view a televised “live feed” showing of the ceremony.