Remembering the ordinary life of an extraordinary mountain man
Bill McGoun
I often think of G.C. He was an extraordinary person.
I first met G.C. (full name: Grover Cleveland Oliver Jr.) in 1969, the first year I and my family vacationed in Swain County. We rented a cabin at Pelohi Cove. G.C. was the factotum for the developers.
One of G.C.’s many tasks was a weekly run taking renters’ garbage to the county dump. The ride to the dump was for my children one of the highlights of that first trip to the mountains. The same was true the next year, when we rented for two weeks, and the next, when we rented for three. The fourth year we bought a Pelohi cabin and used it for two decades.