“Give Jane Barry five days and a bullhorn and she can give you 200 protesters and a message: No to offshore drilling. Barry, a 63-year-old real estate broker from Gloucester, organized one of 26 ‘Hands Across the Sand’ protests in Massachusetts — 808 nationwide — to oppose offshore drilling and call for clean energy alternatives. Participants linked hands, standing on beaches together at noon for 15 minutes yesterday. ‘Sometimes in order to start something, you have to scream,’ Barry said in an interview. Barry took an old real estate sign and decorated it with paper hands and an ocean made of blue electrical tape. Beneath her straw with the words ‘Hands Across the Sand’ written in orange and blue marker, she was joined by 15 others who gathered at one end of Good Harbor Beach, held hands and started walking toward the other end, their feet splashing in the surf. Barry started yelling into her bullhorn for people to join.” (06/27/10)