**SPELLING OUT THE NEWS.** On Sunday, the Hull No Place for Hate Committee sponsored the third ‘Stand in the Sand,’ in which participants lined up on Nantasket Beach to spell out ‘Hull For All,’ a message of inclusion and community. This image was captured using a drone. [Photo courtesy of Al Coombs]

Submitted by the Hull No Place For Hate Committee

Friends and neighbors, we did it!

More than 300 Hullonians, along with visitors from out of town, joined together on Sunday to “Take a Stand in the Sand!” The members of the Hull No Place For Hate Committee would like to extend an enormous amount of gratitude to everyone who helped us organize, donated goods and services, and showed up to stand with us on the beach to spell out “Hull For All.”
Participants included California Underground, Clients First Financial, Hull Democratic Town Committee, Hull Artists, Hull Lifesaving Museum, Hull Pride, Hull TV2, Nantasket Flatts, Nantasket-Hull Rotary Club, Rickard Construction, Safe Harbor Sunset Bay Marina, School Committee Anti-Racism Sub-committee, and South Shore Cycles. Families and neighborhoods also formed groups including Beach Posse, C Street Gang, Sullivan family, Two Sisterfriends and the Whelan family.
We want to extend a huge thank you to The Hull Times for helping us to promote this event, along with Peter Menice for the feature cartoon in last week’s issue. Thank you also to Hull Public Schools (especially Judith Kuehn and Ian Barkon) for helping us get the word out. We couldn’t have done this without your support. We also want to give thanks to Timo Lawrence of Hull TV 2 for promoting us on his livestream TV channel.
We wouldn’t be able to plan such a large event without the support of the Department of Conservation and Recreation. Thank you Janice Purlon and Kevin Conway for accommodating the revised site plan at the last minute. Thanks to Park Ranger Madison for being on-site and responding immediately to an incident of vandalism the night before the event. We are also grateful that you were able to unlock the bathrooms.
Special thanks to so many local businesses, including the Paragon Carousel for helping us re-inflate a helium balloon that we desperately needed for the stand, Paragon Boardwalk for providing an incredibly generous number of delicious pizza pies for our volunteers and musicians, Weinberg’s Bakery for donating some delicious hot chocolate, and Baby Squid Ink for donating their design skills for our awesome T-shirts. The design will be available for purchase on multiple items, and there may be a future design incorporating the image from the event.

Thank you, Meg Wheeler, for lending us your PA system. Hull TV, we appreciate your help finding past event footage and for covering this most recent event. Al Coombs, your drone work is truly exceptional and the song you chose to add to the footage was just perfect. Ben Maitland-Lewis, your energy and spatial intelligence skills are exactly what we needed to plan and lay out the letters and keep the crowd excited and engaged throughout the entire process.

Gratitude to Obscure Notation, Seawitch and Dahlia Lithwick and her bandmates. Music always brings people together, and we want to thank all of you for sharing your music with us.
We appreciate the ongoing support for the No Place for Hate Town Committee by the select board and town manager, and we will continue to work together for Hull For All.
Until next time!

With love,

Deborah Bayer, Gabriel Ben-Yosef, Valerie Carlson, Laurie Girdharry, Steven Greenberg, Rhoda Kanet, Jim Lampke, Celia Nolan, Paula Nesoff, and Pam Wolfe