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page 64 Monday, August 27, 2012
2012 Art and Balloon Festival
Balloon inflation demonstration in downtown Lincoln
S
aturday afternoon high wind conditions made some of the planned events at the Lincoln
Art & Balloon Festival a little difficult to pull off, but not impossible.
On the square, there was supposed to be an inflation of a hot air balloon. That didn’t happen.
But balloonist Jim Phelan came up with the next best thing. With a brightly colored tarp-like
piece of material, lots of children had the opportunity to play and imagine they were inside the
orb of a hot air balloon.
Phelan also brought the basket for his balloon Good Greeph, sponsored by Hicksgas in
Lincoln. He talked to folks about the basket and demonstrated how hot air is blown into the
balloon.
Pictures by Lisa Ramlow