Save the Harbor Brings “Life’s A Beach” to Endless Summer in Hull

On Saturday September 15th Save the Harbor/Save the Bay and the Department of Conservation & Recreation (DCR) brought their “Life’s a Beach” festival programming to the Hull/Nantasket Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Endless Summer Festival at DCR’s Nantasket Beach. A huge crowd came out in the beautiful weather to enjoy circus acts, live music, “touch-a-truck” activities, food and more on Nantasket Ave along the beach.

“It was a great day in a great beachfront community,” said Bruce Berman, Director of Strategy & Communications for Save the Harbor/Save the Bay. “Thanks to all our friends and partners in Hull for making it so much fun for everyone.”

Save the Harbor and DCR’s Life’s a Beach activities included performers from the Boston Circus Guild, featuring a stilt walker, a hula hooper, a juggler and a pair of acrobats, who delighted the crowd with their skills. In addition, a storytelling pirate brought to life stories of young people from the Age of Sail.

Save the Harbor staff helped to educate community members about plastic marine pollution and the importance of recycling through Artist-in-Residence Robyn Reed’s interactive art installation Changing Course. This project transforms found plastic water bottles into a school of fish. Throughout the event children and families created and contributed their own “fish” to the piece.

"Save the Harbor would like to thank our program and policy partners and event sponsors: the Department of Conservation & Recreation, Harpoon Brewery, JetBlue, The Boston Foundation, the Richard Saltonstall Charitable Foundation, P&G Gillette, National Grid, Comcast, Beacon Capital Partners, New England Picture, Mix 104.1, Boston Centers for Youth & Families, The YMCA of Greater Boston, The Daily Catch Seaport, Baja Taco Truck, and the Blue Sky Collaborative for their support," said Berman.

“Special thanks as well to the hundreds of individual donors for their generosity and to our partners at the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Hull/Nantasket Chamber of Commerce, the Metropolitan Beaches Commission, the Boston Centers for Youth and Families and the YMCA of Greater Boston for their support,” said Berman. “It means the world to all of us, and to all of those we serve.”