The Poca Post

The Poca Post is devoted
to the issuance of artist's
stamps commemorating people
and events on the Poca River

Below are thumbnails
of recent issues. Please
click on the image to view
the stamp. Then click on the
stamp to view the entire pane.

(Plates of each issue, along with
a page of text and sample stamp
are available.
To request an issue,
click here.)

The stamps are created by Ben Mahmoud


The Mad Monk 
and his Gregorian Rants

 

Clifford "Curly" Cadle
Scientist

 

Tommy "Teeter" Totten
Bicycle acrobat

 

Arlen Humphrey
Author of the
Road Kill Cook Book

 

Crawdads on the
Poca River

 

Raymond Raynell
Geneticist

 

Basil  Bowes
Invertor of the
Horsecycle

 

Dr. Joseph Lister
visits the Poca River

 

The Three Twins:
Rona, Mona & Jona

 

Homer Mapes:
Inventor of 
Canned Meat

 

Roy Estep:
Inventor of the Estep One-Step 3 "P' Diet Plan

 

Frederick Ferrell Frye:
Ornithologist

 

Mr. Han Silo:
Inventor of the Silo

 

Col. Thomas McCallous
Civil War Hero

 

The Tour de Poca:
Bicycle Racing on the
Poca River

 

The Pumpkin Races
on the Poca River

 

Effingham Flewellyn Stoppe

Photographer

 

Randell Bob Neely
Aviator

 

Ewing E. Ewing
Bootlegger

 

Juan Garcia-Ortega
de Villahermoso:
Hispanic Settler and
pepper grower

 

J. R. Sitwell:
Inventor of the Personal
Outhouse Ventilator

 

Celebrating the
Circus 
coming to town

 

Rev. Randall Casto:
Preacher & 
Snake Handler

 

Hiram Gallagher:
Ambassador and Practical Joker

 

Lloyd B. Floyd:
Orator

 

Allium tricoccum
Ramps: A West Virginia Treat

 

LeRoy "Lefty" Mobley
Hunter, Trader & Trapper

 

Richard W. Boggs
Landscape Architect

 

The Pliny Crow

 

Lin & Lynn Linz:
Siamese Twins

 

Mr. Machiavelli
McCoy:  Anatomist

 

The Gad Dam

 

Ernest Whilst:
Collector of Abandoned
Words

 

Celebrating
Dental Hygiene on
the Poca River

 

Dentistry on the
Poca River

Gigi Bierbaum
Postmortem Hairdresser

Stanley Beemer
Inventor of the Beemer Steamer

Abner Singleday:
Inventor of Baseball

        

Making Moonshine 
on the Poca River
  

Honoring 150 years of  Poca River Moonshine  

Mr. Roscoe O. Riggle 
Inventor of the 
Portable Potty  

Miss Otillia O'Leery: 
Psychedelic  

The Hollister Head Holster

 The Rev. Denim Mather

 

Tinker Tite's Postcard Viewer 

 

Phallus Fridlii 

 

Black & Blue 

 

Owen Plumbly, Inventor 

 

Thelma Skeeter: Librarian  

 

The Hinton Bird  

 

Farlely Foley's Folly 

 

The Tunnel at Light  

 

Creecy Greens  

 

The Poca Polka  

 

The 1812 Overture 

 

The Copperhead  

 

The Poca Polecat  

 
The Poca Pigeon   
Hatfield-McCoy Feud   
 Yaeger Praetzel  
Flying June Bugs   
D. Darryl Dagget   
R. J. Settle   
 Barbershop Quartet  
Darwin Award/2000   
Arvil Glenwood   
Buddy Petit Jazz Band   
Pony Express   
Pliny Fire   
Maude Barton   
Mayor Tanner    
 Mayor Casto  


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