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gwen snyder · 11-24-2007, 02:02 PM

Wes,
I too remember the event as being sadly indicative of industry on the Lakes and the other sad environmental calamities of the region (river afire, etc). I was a teenager listening to serious events with a keen young mind when the event occurred. When I first heard the song, it was easy to identify with the event, I had just finished marching from jet over 4 aircraft school at Chanute field on a balmy fall afternoon (it must of been first week of November). Some friends of mine (other students in the school) were talking about the song/event, right after we finished hearing the song. They new of the songs meaning, even identified with the iron-ore industry. Still Wes, the song seemed, to me, to be about the sundown events of industry on the lakes. Seemed to fortell of the greater tragedy of time and change. Sad that 29 men perished at that advanced time frame in navigation history.
Seafarer, you really made me think back... back to my days at the Forks. Running to Winnipag to party on weekends when I didn't fly out of the area. I used to have a great need to get the H*** away from Grand Forks and everybody and my favorite get away was to run to Bemidgi go North up to Black Duck light a camp fire and sleep under the stars (generally wake up with a blanket of snow over my bag). Those, my friend, were the days. Makes me long for the isolation/insulation/preservation.
Wes, what a topic! You know how to pick 'em.

11-24-2007, 02:02 PM	#10
gwen snyder Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 568	Re: Do Any Of You Remember When It Happened? Wes, I too remember the event as being sadly indicative of industry on the Lakes and the other sad environmental calamities of the region (river afire, etc). I was a teenager listening to serious events with a keen young mind when the event occurred. When I first heard the song, it was easy to identify with the event, I had just finished marching from jet over 4 aircraft school at Chanute field on a balmy fall afternoon (it must of been first week of November). Some friends of mine (other students in the school) were talking about the song/event, right after we finished hearing the song. They new of the songs meaning, even identified with the iron-ore industry. Still Wes, the song seemed, to me, to be about the sundown events of industry on the lakes. Seemed to fortell of the greater tragedy of time and change. Sad that 29 men perished at that advanced time frame in navigation history. Seafarer, you really made me think back... back to my days at the Forks. Running to Winnipag to party on weekends when I didn't fly out of the area. I used to have a great need to get the H*** away from Grand Forks and everybody and my favorite get away was to run to Bemidgi go North up to Black Duck light a camp fire and sleep under the stars (generally wake up with a blanket of snow over my bag). Those, my friend, were the days. Makes me long for the isolation/insulation/preservation. Wes, what a topic! You know how to pick 'em. __________________ gwen