Pa. I remember accompanying Dad to Mr. Holl's memorial service. It was, indeed, a solemn and memorable event. Every once in a while, the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is mentioned around home. Such occasions always seem to invoke memories of a dear friend and of days which have now been relegated to the distant past. Mike Greissel's article most likely will touch a nerve with many folks who are affiliated with the steel industry.
Most everyday jobs get very little or no recognition.
Pa. I enjoyed Mike Greissel's article on his ore-boat trip aboard the Edgar B. Speer in the June issue. It brought back memories of June 1964, when my dad got us a ten-day trip from Ashtabula, Ohio, to Duluth, Minn., and back aboard the J. Burton Ayers , an ore boat supplying what was then Jones and Laughlin Steel. It was the trip of a lifetime. We left Ashtabula in sunny weather with the temperature in the high 80s, and by the time we hit the locks at Sault Ste. Marie, it was blowing a gale and the temperature was in the mid-30s.