It's one of those things in life that has stuck with me, even though it took place half way around the world. I can clearly remember when I first heard the song, it must have been October or maybe early November 1976, I was painting a cartoon of the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins for a girlfriend, well it was the 70's. One of the Radio 1 Saturday morning DJ's played US releases and chose the song from Lightfoot's Summertime Dream album.
Fast forward 35 years and we saw some of these huge vessels while on holiday on Lake Huron and got to really appreciate the scale and beauty of those vast freshwater lakes. All the pictures here are of lake freighters approaching the St Clair river which joins Huron and Erie.
In the words of the song "the ship was the pride of the American side" so it's no surprise that there are a number of events to mark the event.
If you haven't heard it, here's the song.
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Max this is a very interesting post. This is a very poignant song and Gordon Lightfoot asks a haunting existential question made more immediate in the context of recent events in Paris -
ReplyDelete"Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours"
The answer always returns to theological questions of mans free choice - Personally I wouldn't mind too much if the big fella in the sky (Metaphorically speaking) occasionally pulled a few strings for the greater good.
Hey a post about my neck of the woods! The Great Lakes have a ton of shipwrecks, some quite easily even from the shoreline.
ReplyDeleteHere is a short video clip of the shipwreck Minnehaha, just off the beach where we vacation on Lake Michigan.
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