Lost Mariners Remembrance
November 10  - 6 p.m.



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This year’s remembrance features Marine artist and historian Robert McGreevy who will discuss the sidewheel steamer Key Stone State, once the second largest passenger vessel on the Great Lakes.

 

Event highlights will include a lantern vigil at the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald anchor, ballads with Lee Murdock, a color guard escort of the memorial wreath to the Detroit River for receipt by a flotilla of Great Lakes vessels, and a special program with Robert McGreevy.

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 6 p.m. A lantern ceremony at the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald anchor remembers her crew on the 35th anniversary of the ship's sinking.

6:15 p.m.  Lee Murdock performs in DeRoy Hall.

7:00 p.m. Assembly of the Lost Mariners honor guard, the honor guard will be escorted by bagpipers and a bugler to the river's edge with the Lost Mariners memorial wreath.

7:20 p.m. Presentation by guest speaker, Robert McGreevy who will discuss the sidewheel steamer Key Stone State.

8:00 p.m.  The event concludes with a memorial prayer and benediction by Rev. Innes, followed by Lee Murdock's rendition of Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and a video collage of the ship's history.