HOUGHTON — Maritime historian and author Frederick Stonehouse held a presentation on the Edmund Fitzgerald at Michigan Tech’s Memorial Union Building Saturday evening. The event was presented by the Van Pelt and Opie Library, Potage Lake District Library, The Library Network and Superiorland Library Cooperative in order to educate the public about the cargo ship which sank in Lake Superior 50 years ago last week.

Stonehouse has been a consultant with the National Park Service and Parks Canada and has 40 years of experience of shipwreck diving and searching in the Great Lakes. He wrote more than 30 books focusing on maritime history, primarily the Great Lakes. His book, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” is a best seller which reviews the multiple theories regarding the sinking and how

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