I drive into the outer dark, pressing the gas through my socks, determined that I will never return to these false lights.
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This aching ode to New York — "my city," Robbins called it in one poem, which "chokes on its breath, and sparkles with its false lights" — feels almost like a eulogy for a vanished city, which enfolded artists and dancers and gave them both freedom and inspiration.
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Methinks, the blinking and false lights of their shops should have minded them of their quarter, in the other world, aforehand.
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In the same period he also produced the debut album by London folk band Tir Eolas, "Stories Sung, Truths Told". Moray produced Salvor, the debut album by False Lights – his collaboration with Sam Carter, in 2015.
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A traditional legendary trope is that wreckers deliberately decoying ships on to coasts use tricks, especially false lights, so that they run ashore for easy plundering. While this has been depicted in many stories and legends, there is no clear evidence that this has ever happened.
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Along with singer and guitarist Sam Carter, in 2014 Moray launched a new band named False Lights to play traditional music with electric instruments. Their album Salvor, produced by Moray, was released in February 2015 and they announced headline shows at Folk East, Trowbridge Village Pump and Homegrown festivals.
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P. 139. Craton. P. 167. Legend maintains that the town of Nags Head, North Carolina takes its name from wreckers or "bankers" deploying false lights. The toponymic legend states that in the 18th century, wreckers would hang lanterns from the necks of mules (colloquially called "nags" at the time) and walk the animals very slowly up and down the beach.
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The first single, "For Your Lover Give Some Time," was released as a three-track digital download on 10 August 2009. A second single, "Open Up Your Door", was released on 30 November 2009, also as a three-track digital download. "Remorse Code" was issued as the album's de facto third single on the EP False Lights from the Land on 7 June 2010.
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In 1940, the Air Ministry selected Lakenheath as an alternative for nearby RAF Mildenhall and used it as a decoy airfield. False lights, runways and aircraft diverted Luftwaffe attacks from Mildenhall. Surfaced runways were constructed in 1941, with the main runway (04/22) being 2,000 yards, and the subsidiaries at 1,300 yards (12/30) and 1,400 yards (16/34). Another 100 yards was added to runway 16/34.
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His collaboration with Zimbabwean singer Lucky Moyo resulted in an appearance on the Andrew Marr Show on the BBC as part of 'Celebrating Sanctuary London 2013.'Broadcast date 16 June 2013, Following a relatively quiet period in the first half of 2014, Carter re-emerged towards the end of the year in partnership with fellow roots musician Jim Moray in a "folk rock" venture named False Lights and announced a short tour in early 2015.
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In poverty, Seavey moved to Escanaba, Michigan and acquired a schooner, which he named the Wanderer, and began a career as a pirate. Seavey sailed the Wanderer as a legitimate shipping operation, but also sailed into ports at night to steal cargo from other vessels and warehouses. Seavey also kidnapped or transported women in the illegal prostitution trade, an early form of human trafficking and sex trafficking. Seavey was notorious for altering sea lights, either by extinguishing existing lights or placing false lights.
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6 He wished for a naval career, but his eyesight precluded it, and, despite his parents' disapproval, he pursued a career in the theatre. Apart from an appearance as a baby in his mother's arms in a melodrama, his stage début was as a teenager in the role of Dr Winsley Andrewes in False Lights at the Royal Edinburgh Theatre with his family's touring theatre company, the Frederick Wright Dramatic Company.The Manchester Guardian, obituary, 12 July 1941, p. 4Lipton, Martina.
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St Hilary's Church The main activities in the area were farming and fishing. The area also had a reputation for smuggling and “wrecking”, the act of luring ships onto rocks or sandbanks with false lights in order to raid their cargo. Underground cellars and tunnels, which were used to hide cargo pilfered from wrecked ships still exist in the town. As late as 1839, the “Pennsylvania” and two other ships were wrecked off Leasowe in a severe storm, and their cargoes and furnishings were later found distributed among local residents.
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There were reputed to be many wreckers in the Pembrey area. "Mat of the Iron Hand", who had lost a hand and boasted an iron hook, used to tie lanterns to the sheep grazing on the headlands during a winter storm to draw vessels into shore. One day, these false lights lured a ship onto the rocks before Sir Walter Vaughan could get the boats of his sea rescue crew out to save them. It was said that Mat's custom was to kill all survivors, so that there could be no witnesses.
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But Ellery is also a kind and thoughtful man. For example, unlike other draggers, he keeps the best lobster he catches for himself and his crew. Additionally, when the oceanographers from Yale University sail with him on the Eleanor one day a month he flies the an “old Yale pennant”. The article closes with Frank, one of Ellery's two crew mates, telling an interesting folk tale. The story is about Old Chrissy, “an old rascal of a woman that was the head of a gang of Block Island wreckers”. The gig was that Chrissy and her crew would lure ships in “with false lights, & they killed the sailors & the passengers, so there wouldn't be any tales told”.
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A polished flint axe-head of Seamer type was found at Ogmore Mill in 1976. Just like its counterparts in Cornwall, Ireland and Brittany, the west-facing beach and coast was notorious as a graveyard for ships during strong on-shore winds (south-westerly winds from the Atlantic). Many ships, in particular, were destroyed on Tusker Rock, a brutal reef slightly out to sea that is totally covered at high tide. There are urban legends of organised shipwrecking at Ogmore (and all across the Vale of Glamorgan coastline) like tales from Cornwall of the use of false lights so that passing ships would mistake a flickering light as a lighthouse or ship at anchor and be lured to destruction, but there is no historical evidence for that.
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