DULUTH — Often, when people see the Edmund Fitzgerald exhibit at the Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center, they simply have to hear the song.

"One time I had the crap scared out of me, because I thought I was completely alone in the museum," Kaylee Matuszak told the News Tribune in 2023. "It was the middle of winter, and then all of a sudden the song started playing."

Matuszak has a unique perspective on Gordon Lightfoot's 1976 ballad, being both a singer-songwriter and a staffer at the Maritime Visitor Center (formerly a park ranger, she is currently employed by the associated Lake Superior Marine Museum Association).

"Even people who don't really care about boats or Great Lakes stuff in general, they know the song," Matuszak told the News Tribune in January. "So even if we didn't

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