We want it become an event that the community will look forward to. It could become another festival that will bring a lot of people to Orangeburg.

You just try to cut the kite string of the person nearest you.

The kites and all the strings were imported from India just for this celebration. The string is specially made for this.

In India, people fly kites from their roof tops and terraces. Sometimes, the sky seemed filled with kites.

We recognize how important mining is to this community, and it's definitely not our goal to shut it down.

For decades now, the scientific and medical community have said that sexual orientation is an immutable trait, what some of us might call a gift from God.