title: Echoes of Distant Thunder
author:  Frank P. Slaughter 
description: A lifelong resident of Michigan, Frank has spent many enjoyable hours sailing on the Great Lakes and flying over them as a private pilot. He is a gun corporal in the Battery D first Michigan Light Artillery reenactor group, produces a weekly radio show on Interlochen Public Radio and lives in the country with his wife Maurine and their three terriers.
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  ### Escapade
  
  
  By Susan Carroll
  
  
  Copyright 2012 Susan Carroll
  
  
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  CHAPTER ONE
  
  
    
  
  
  It was a splendid day for a wedding—splendid,
  
  
  that is, if one took no heed of the dark clouds gathering on the
  
  
  horizon and the ominous rumble of thunder sounding low in the
  
  
  gentle rise of green hills forming the Hudson River Valley. But for
  
  
  most, the warning was lost in other noises emanating from
  
  
  Westvale's fairgrounds—the shrill clamor of the calliope, the
  
  
  circus barker's cries, the laughter