The Last Voyage of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. Katya Gordon interviews playwright Hal Barnes and producers Dave Nimmer and Gary Muellerleile about this new radio play re-enacting the final moments and last transmissions of the Edmund Fitzgerald on the fateful night of November 10, 1975. The radio play itself may be heard on MPR’s website here. Thank you to MPR’s Cathy Wurzer for suggesting we broadcast this new production. [Originally broadcast on KTWH November 9, 2024 and November 10, 2024]
The Gales of November: An Oral History. The hour-long program features excerpts of conversations with four experienced Lake Superior ore boat sailors: Cedric Woodard, the late Captain Bob Libby, Jule Salveson and Ross Leroy (photo not shown). They discuss life on the Great Lakes ore boats, what it’s like to be on the lakes in storms with 30′ waves, and their respective impressions of what might have happened the fateful night in 1975 when the Edmund Fitzgerald disappeared in a gale of November. [Narrated by Jane Thimke, produced by Fran Kaliher; originally broadcast November, 2023]
pictured: Jule Salveson, Captain Bob Libby, Cedric Woodard
