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From: Jon Paul Van Harpen
Category: Shipwreck Research
Date: 17 Aug 2007
Time: 14:51:56
Remote Name: 66.190.41.52
Cinthia Edwards from the Eagle River Lighthouse Museum on the Keweenaw Peninsula saw the story and when it was reported, and that the ring had Duluth on the backside remembered her father had purchased a life ring at a rummage sale that read Duluth on one side and painted "Edmund Fitzgerald" on the face as a mantle piece. Her father was remoding his house in Eagle River and hung the ring on a tree outside and it disapeared. Some unidentified college students came forward and said they found the ring in the water and placed it on the shoreline near the end of the beach. So ends the mystery of the "Edmund Fitzgerald" life ring. I do not believe the painter of the life ring or the Rasch family that found it had any bad intentions, but I do question the unidentified college students story of how they found it and how they dispersed it?