• 4 p.m.: Program begins with a video detailing the Edmund Fitzgerald
• 4:30 p.m.: Placing of 29 illuminated lanterns -- one for each of the lost crew members -- around the Fitzgerald's original anchor, which was lost in the Detroit River years before the tragedy. Recovered in 1992, it was installed on the museum grounds.
• 5 p.m.: Concert by Great Lakes balladeer Lee Murdock.
• 6:30 p.m.: Capt. Donald Erickson will recount how his crew on the William Clay Ford braved the storm to search for possible survivors of the lost ship.
• 7:10 p.m.: The approximate time the Fitzgerald went missing, the names of the 29 lost crew members will be read and a bell will toll 29 times. Bishop Richard Ingalls, the rector of Mariners' Church of Detroit, whose bell-ringing 30 years ago inspired Gordon Lightfoot's famous ballad, will participate, and a wreath will be placed in the Detroit River.
 

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Capt. Erickson speaking from the pilothouse. Roger LeLievre

Edmund Fitzgerald Memorial
On Thursday November 10 a memorial service will be held for the Edmund Fitzgerald at the Dossin Museum in Detroit. This program will be available online through a webcast.

The ceremony marks the 30th Anniversary of the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior at approx. 7:10 pm November 10, 1975. Viewers from across the country will be able to submit questions to the speaker online.

Lamp lighting ceremony. Chris Winters

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