Newport Kite Festival 2012

The annual Newport Kite Festival is happening this weekend and Ron Kitt from Kitts Kites joined The Rhode Show to talk about all the different kinds of kites that you can buy.

These are not your regular kites that you may have used as a kid.

Southern Rhode Island and Newport specifically, is known worldwide for it’s sailing history, as the sight of the ‘America’s Cup” World Class sailing regatta and match race, the geographic layout provides great winds off the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Narragansett Bay.

The Newport Kite Festival is held on the Southern tip of Newport, at “Brenton Point State Park.” The park was opened up to the public in 1976, and offers a spectacular commanding wide-open view, with the Atlantic to the South and the Mouth of Narragansett Bay to the West.

Nearly surrounded by water, the grass fields of “the point” as the locals call it, has grown to be a friendly, well-known premier spot to fly kites.  

In 2009 Kitt Kites, (owner Ron Kitt,) took over the responsibility to again put on a show of all phases of kites and kite flyers at “The Point”, for the public, free of charge, with the need to restart a solid longstanding tradition.

For 2012 they plan to put on a great show with some new ideas to make this years festival a great success.

For more information about the event you can go to http://www.newportkitefestival.com/Home_Page.html