“Lightfoot, who sailed in the Mackinac Yacht Races, reportedly read about the Nov. 10, 1975 sinking in a Newsweek magazine article, ‘The Cruelest Month.’ The article’s title was an allusion to T.S. Eliot’s poem ‘The Waste Land,’ and Lightfoot turned the first few lines into a song.” #GordonLightfoot #Michigan https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/05/02/gordon-lightfoot-edmund-fitzgerald-song-michigan/70173839007/