Happy belated B-Day Gordon Lightfoot! So good to have you in the world. You have inspired me and my own song writing since the early seventies. I know it's all been said before, but thank you for the songs that have meant so much to so many over the years and will continue to inspire well into the future. Every time I go north here in Michigan you are with me in spirit. As I cross the great bridge I sing the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and I am thinking of you as I venture up to the Whitefish Point Shipwreck Museum. The first time I ventured out to the point there was nothing but an unmanned light, fog horn, and emerald green ice to greet the visitor. A quite desolate place, silent except for the periodic blast of the horn. This was right at the time of the tragic sinking of the Fitzgerald and after having heard your classic ballad of its demise I couldn't help but think of the freighter going down out there just beyond the point. I came home and wrote a song dedicated to the point called, appropriately, Whitefish Point. My writing has been inspired by you many times since. Thank you for touching my soul so profoundly.
[This message has been edited by windhorse (edited October 27, 2000).]
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