Kieron Jansch’s first kite was a diamond-shaped stunt kite with a tail. His friend had bought it for him, and Jansch loved it, but also managed to run it repeatedly into the ground. At the time he was ...

At some point, many of us were briefly fascinated with kites. The reason we were only briefly interested in this hobby was that it was fraught with failure: The kite never flew or, if it did, it was ...

Kieron Jansch's first kite was a diamond-shaped stunt kite with a tail. His friend had bought it for him, and Jansch loved it, but also managed to run it repeatedly into the ground. At the time he was ...

Expect to see every kind of kite in the sky at Wheaton Park District's Forth Annual “Go Fly a Kite!” Simple paper-diamond kites. Giant animal-shaped kites. Kites that require multiple lines. Kites ...

Like many people, Peter Jung flew his first kite during a family outing. The small, red diamond-shaped kite sat enticingly on a picnic table at High Park. But the eight-year-old relative it was ...