Many ships have been lost on the Shores off of Northern MN... bordering Lake Superior... Storms can move in quickly... turning a warm and sunny day into a cold blast of thick fog or stormy skies and whipping winds that create whitecaps... the lighthouse saved many ships from slapping against the rocky shores ... Click into this link for a very infectious song about a ship lost at sea on the Gitchi Gumi... the native Ojibwe's name for Lake Superior. The song's name is The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot... http://www.imeem.com/fasttracks/music/gdA-uR3H/gordon-lightfoot-wreck-of-the-edmund-fitzgerald/