OVER THERE – WWI Music Show

With songs and stories, Barry Cloyd, singer/songwriter,  portrays his grandfather, Chalmer M. Cloyd Sr. who enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1917 with music and stories..  He shipped out to France on the RMS Carpathia as a Mess Sergeant and then fought as an infantry soldier in some of the most brutal battles of the “War to End All Wars.”

Sponsored by Friends of the Moline Public Library Foundation.

It wasn’t all little houses and grass.

Okay. So that was a whole lot of it. But there were stories and songs too!