Split Rock Lighthouse lit in honor of Gordon Lightfoot

TWO HARBORS, Minn. – Split Rock Lighthouse in Two Harbors shone bright Wednesday night in honor of Canadian folk music legend Gordon Lightfoot, who died Monday at age 84.  

Lightfoot will always have a piece of Minnesota's heart because of his hit 1976 song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."   

The song told the story of the 1975 Lake Superior shipwreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. It reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 charts exactly one year after the Great Lakes freighter sank.

In:
• Lake Superior