Clean Monday—the beginning of Lent among Orthodox Christians—is the day Greeks fly kites, symbolic of the Resurrection.

Cade Bradshaw has a name for that look on your face when you tease the heavens with a tethered piece of flying art. “They call it the kite flier’s smile,” said Bradshaw, an artist and kite maker who ...

NORTH TONAWANDA — Ted Shaw did not get into kite flying until his mid-50s, when he was going through a depressive state. What helped him get out of it was looking through a catalog of kites. Now 78 ...