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tinued my trek across the road, over the railroad tracks and through the vacant playing fields.
And there she was, like some mythical beast — forty feet tall and brilliant blue. She reflected the slowly setting sun and the smiles of all in attendance.
As we watched, the “other” Serena’s Song lifted off the ground like a fog in early May — quietly, gently, softly carrying its wheelchair-bound passengers to heights never before imagined.
The crowd cheered, just as they had for another Serena’s Song in the Haskell an hour earlier. *
The hot air balloon Serena’s Song made many trips that peaceful afternoon, as she does yearround, coming down to unload and patiently reload the next wheelchair. She is the brainchild of craftsman, father and humanist Gary Waldman of Correctionville, Iowa. His idea was born with daughter Serena, 11 years ago. It was designed specifically for his daughter Serena but for others as well, to allow their wheelchairs into her basket, to carry them into the blue beyond.
In less than a minute, Serena’s Song set spirits free in the Jersey sky — children who were incapable of walking soared to ethereal heights in her specially designed basket.
Serena’s Song the horse. Serena’s Song the hot-air balloon. I stood in wonderment and lost all merit as an effective journalist that day.
I tried taking photographs, but
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