"The Wreck Of Big Fitz" is my favorite one by GL. I love so many others by him as well. I've loved ore boats ever since I was a kid back in the early 70s (thats as far back I can remember). Big Fitz has always been my favorite one. I live right on the "big lake", three miles from Silver Bay, where the Fitz loaded taconite on a regular basis. Every now and then when I know that the Reserve (one of the Fitz's fleet sisters that also is really the only laker on the lakes today that closely resembles the Fitz), is comming in to Silver Bay, to load, I go down to the harbor and pretend that its the Fitz comming in. I have a friend in Beaver Bay, who worked on her in the summer of 1969. If the Fitz were still plying the lakes today, she would have an extended hull and a self unloader. In my heart, the Fitz is alive and well. I will be at Split Rock in November, as usual, to celebrate life. God Bless everyone everywhere, and pray for world peace and believe that it will happen. Peace will happen!
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