Sarah Schweitzer (@sarahschweitzer) has been a journalist since 1997. She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature writing in 2015. She lives in New Hampshire.
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Brian Boland was a prolific creator of handcrafted hot-air balloons who set distance and altitude records all over the world. But on July 15, 2021, during a routine outing with a family in Vermont, things went dramatically wrong. Sarah Schweitzer examines Boland鈥檚 eccentric and adventurous life, and finds out what happened on his fateful last flight.