Thu 1/9 @ 7PM
The Cleveland Stories series at the Music Box Supper Club has covered many topics but a surefire winner is disaster.
So this week, two area authors will be addressing a topic on which there’s plenty of material: Great Lakes shipwrecks. There are hundreds to choose form, ranging from the deadliest, the Lady Elgin, which sunk in Lake Michigan off Highland Park, Illinois at the cost of about 300 lives, to the 1958 sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, the largest ship to have sunk in the lakes, primarily famous because of the interminable Gordon Lightfoot song. Lightfoot wrote the song following the 1975 discovery of the ship and, astonishing, it was a #2 Billboard hit in 1976 and went to #1 in Cashbox. While the ship’s recovered bell is rung 29 times each year to memorialize the crew members lost, in 2023 it was rung 30 times following Lightfoot’s death, honoring his roll in keeping the ship’s memory alive.
Authors Charles Cassady and Bill Krejci, who have written more than a dozen books between them about Ohio ghosts, crimes, legends and history, will have plenty of other stories to tell from this treasure trove of material. Doors open at 5pm for dinner or just come for storytelling starting at 7pm. There’s no admission charge but if you want to eat you should make a reservation.
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Cleveland, OH 44113