Unsalted, No Sharks

Ramblings of a Great Lakes ambassador

Last weekend, two friends and I drove north to Duluth, Minnesota, for an event called, “Gales of November.” If that name rings a bell, it’s probably because you’ve heard Gordon Lightfoot’s elegy, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” about the loss of a famous ship and her crew during a November storm on Lake Superior in 1975. The event, now over 30 yea…