The Edmund Fitzgerald sank Nov. 10, 1975, and the legend lives on. The author of The Gales of November, joins us to discuss what we know about the freighter that went down, taking 29 men to their graves, and what is still unclear.
Listen to the radio transmission from the ship that fateful night.
Bob Campbell/NOAA
Also:
* This Week in Illinois History remembers the first locomotive in Illinois.
* We hear about a Pokemon exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago.
* A musician who moved from Chicago to Galesburg shares his story.
* We learn about a family farm that turned from an industrial hog operation to growing mushrooms.
* Kate Grumke takes us to Hannibal, Missouri where an endangered bat is swarming.
