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town. "I don't think anyone in town ever gave an interview before this, but all of a sudden, we're stars," one resident said at the time. "It's sure been a big deal around here."
There have been other famous faces to hail from Kiln, including another acclaimed professional athlete, Wendell Ladner, who was known as "Mr. Excitement" during his American Basketball Association career before dying in a 1975 plane crash; and Theodore Bilbo, who served as principal of the Bayou Talla School here in 1903 and later went on to become governor and U.S. senator.
Lately, the entire town seems to be thriving again, with new companies and restaurants, including Favre's on the Bayou?operated by Brett's family members?and more residential areas. The Stennis International Airport here, which opened in 1970 as a general commercial airport and now serves NASA's Stennis Space Center and private interests, boasts one of the longest runways in the South at 8,500 feet. Inside one of its hangars, a British organization is working to restore a former Royal Air Force supersonic fighter jet called the English Electric Lightning Mk T5. The team chose Stennis because the British government does not allow restored vintage jets like the Lightning to fly there, and Kiln's long runway and proximity to the Gulf of Mexico make it ideal for potential supersonic flight.
Good and bad days of the past aside, the area still holds its own distinctive charm. "The most beautiful streams it has been my privilege to see anywhere are found in this coastal area," Thigpen mused in his Kiln report. "The area of which Kiln is a part has many assets, and balmy gulf breezes caress and cool the hot days of summer."
Brett Favre speaks just as kindly of his hometown, but in his own way: "It's not so much a town, really, as it is a community, a big, overgrown neighborhood," Favre once said, according to ESPN.com. "...It's a place where everybody knows who they are. Where there is no (pretense). Where they give you the chance to grow up right and, if you work hard, to basically earn everyone's respect." m
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