It’s an eye-catching shop. Colorful windsocks, wind spinners and other bright decorations hang outside in the breeze. Year after year, driving past Four Winds Kite Shop, I’ve thought about stopping.

Richard Carter and his wife, Sue, love kites. Not just the standard, store-bought diamond-shaped kite with a string of old cloth for a tail, but kites of all shapes and sizes. In fact, they are such ...