Author Archives: Kitelife Archive

Kite Lines – Vol. 4 No. 2 (First Quarter 1982)

Description Cover Story: George Peters at play in Hawaii, by Clare Chanler Forster. Features: Dale [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 4 No. 1 (Summer-Fall 1981)

Description Cover Story: Masters of nylon: father-and-son Curtis and Gray Marshall of Baltimore, MD, photos [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 3 No. 4 (Winter-Spring 1981)

Description Cover: Delightful Dioppo, a photo/report by Jacques Fissier on France’s prestigious kite festival. Features: [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 3 No. 3 (Fall 1980)

Description Cover Story: Ahhh… Scheveningen, Holland’s Highest Day (cover photo of Nick Morse and Cody [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 3 No. 2 (Spring-Summer 1980)

Description Cover Photo: Jacques Fissier’s dragon-kite-at-sunset. Features: Valerie Govig profile of “the real Will Yolen;” [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 3 No. 1 (Winter 1979-80)

Description Cover Story: George Ham, San Francisco maker of parafoils par excellence, text and photos [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 2 No. 4 (Fall 1979)

Description Cover Story: A symposium: Monumentality in Kites (cover photo by Dave Checkley), including opinions [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 2 No. 3 (Summer 1979)

Description Cover Story: A Jalbert parafoil that pulls a truck sideways (photo by Ted Manekin)-and [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 2 No. 2 (Spring 1979)

Description Cover Story: Kites in museums: Dave Checkley on the Tokyo Kite Museum; Valerie Govig [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 2 No. 1 (Spring-Summer 1978)

Description Cover Story: Seattle kitemaker J.C. Young and his traditional Chinese birds and butterflies adapted [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 1 No. 4 (Winter 1977-78)

Description Cover Story (with photo by Anneke Davis of Carl Douglass Jewell’s tetra): A symposium [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 1 No. 3 (Fall 1977)

Description Cover Story: Go fish! Articles on kite fishing by Wayne Baldwin (with photos by [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 1 No. 2 (Summer 1977)

Description Cover Story: Trains, trains, trains! Stories on kite trains include: Valerie Govig on history [...]

Kite Lines – Vol. 1 No. 1 (Spring 1977)

Description The premiere edition, successor to Kite Tales as the quarterly journal of the American [...]