the NAVASOTA CURRENT: WHAT A DAY! Dedication leads to a Dedication.

Mayor Pro-tem Peter Canney and City Manager Brad Stafford do the honors...

It's early Sunday morning and I still can't go to sleep. It was a... most excellent day. Thanks again to everyone and especially the City of Navasota. I am very grateful for the chance to prove myself and Marshal Frank Hamer to skeptics... and to honor our wonderful lawmen in the process.

If you were not there... you missed a truly inspiring time. But every time you pass the sculpture, you will feel a glimpse of it.

A proclamation from the State Capitol...

Harrison Hamer tells everyone the short version of his great uncle's history.

Tom Turner records as Great-nephew Harrison Hamer tells of a chance meeting between one of his relatives and a woman at an airport. Her name was Quinn and she had lived in Navasota during the Frank Hamer days... This chance conversation was when the family learned treasured historical tid-bits about their famous uncle.

Navasota is a small town, and to say that this handshake represents much more than a mere congratulations... would be only a hint at the friendship, respect and teamwork behind it. Mayor Bert Miller magnanimously cheers on this town... while he has quietly established a legacy of enviable progress.

For an artist, it gets no better than this... to install a monument of a local hero just blocks from your house... and share the moment with your wife of 37 years... somebody who has sacrificed a great deal to see this day come. I once told Linda that I did not want to get to the mountain top and yet be by myself... that it was important that she hang in there and be there... and there we were.