'For my mother, who at the age of three did hear the words of her dying mother,

wistful she was throughout her life as she knew something about her heritage;

then modern-day technology shines a light on her mother and father,

those cherished words many can only hope to hear, yet those words rise up,

"you are of kings!"

 

Unbeknownst to my mother, who spoke fondly of the singer, Gordon Lightfoot,

she would soon learn her relationship to him personally tells a greater tale close to those words of, 'being of Kings',

 the waves of Lake Superior reveal, with help of modern day technology,

the 'Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'.

 

... t'was truth so deemed...

the losses of the Fitzgerald should ring forth for all eternity once again through a song about the

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SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Lost in a storm on November 10, 1975, with all 29 crew members

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'Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' by: Gordon Lightfoot

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'Modern day technological recording of data and fevor of wanting to know who is who descended from the kings and queen's of history shed light more of struggles of the Family of Fitzgerald's'.

Losses during tumultuous 'Kingly times', with at least four beheadings as they attempted to take possession of the crown.​

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