Hanging on the wall at the United States Postal Service (USPS) Office on Miller Valley Road is a painting of a mail carrier driving along a road before a backdrop of mountains. Many admire it, but few know the artist behind the painting — Vietnam Army veteran, former mail carrier, and kind-hearted storyteller David York.
York, now 81, created the piece shortly before the Miller Valley post office opened. He used poster paper cutouts for the mountains and a printer to form the shadow of a man on horseback — a nod to the Pony Express. He said his great-grandfather was a Pony Express rider, delivering from Little Rock, Arkansas to St. Joseph, Missouri.
