Echoes from the Hiatus

originally posted by Thor:
But you see at heart I'm just a simple guy from the inland streets of Manhattan. I'm not accustomed to all the cultural decadence of you Coastal Folk.
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I'm from rural Minnesota!
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Ay, the coast of rural Minnesota, where cheddar cheese lives forever, and sailors wander endlessly, searching for salt water...
 
The only thing that happens on the coast of rural Minnesota is that we sink ships so that Gordon Lightfoot can sing about them.
 
originally posted by Steve Edmunds:
Alas poor, Edmund Fitzgerald! I knew him well
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One of the most awe-inspiring photos I've seen is the poster showing a Lake Superior wave about to engulf a lighthouse situated (Split Rock?) on a rocky prominence. It's not hard to imagine how such a wave could easily do in most any sailing vessel, though it is a bit hard to reconcile that image with the lake we've experienced in those fleeting weeks of summer as we've prowled Pictured Rocks and Isle Royale. Swimming in Lake Superior then is great: all the fun of the Atlantic Ocean with no salt (the Pacific of NoCal is a different proposition, as I like big waves).

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by Thor:
The only thing that happens on the coast of rural Minnesota is that we sink ships so that Gordon Lightfoot can sing about them.
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I still remember how to play the four chords of that tune on a guitar.

Technically not the coast of Minnesota, she went down off of Whitefish Point on the far eastern shore of Michigan's upper peninsula. There's an interesting model of the wreck at the (highly underrated) Dossin Great Lakes Museum on Belle Isle in the Detroit River.
 
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