It kind of bothered me, Kyle said. Sandel said she and her sons had been watching the Dothan Area CVB Pro Tennis Classic most of the day and decided to come to Water World to cool off. Her father was playing in a softball tournament at Westgate next to the water park. I had to go buy a suit, she said. We ran to Wal-Mart real fast.
Individual memories are often sketchy, but when put with others they offer a more complete picture.
That s how the history of the Dothan Regional Airport is being compiled - through recollections, documentation, letters, stories told and retold, and written accounts of how things came to pass. I remember when they asked me if they could bring a C-5 in here, said George Lindholm, past president of Hayes International Corp. A C-5 is a 700,000 pound plane with 28 wheels, said retired engineer Sam Wainwright, who came to Dothan from Mobile in 1959 to build the Dothan Regional Airport. Wainwright followed behind the plane in his truck, being sure the runway would support the weight of the huge C-5. Harold Wiggins, retired CEO of child furniture manufacturer, Hedstrom Corp., which later closed, shakes his head as he recalls those and other memories.