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Even with the removal of dozens of buildings from FEMA's 100-year flood plain, records show Camp Mystic lobbied to have ...
I’d pack a trunk full of swimsuits, Nike shorts, and white Hanes t-shirts and my parents would take my sister and me on a six-hour drive through Texas, from our hometown of Beaumont to the small ...
The Guadalupe River flood claimed 27 lives at Camp Mystic, including local hero Dick Eastland, who died rescuing campers ...
For decades, Dick and Tweety Eastland presided over Camp Mystic with a kind of magisterial benevolence that alumni well past ...
NPR's Scott Simon remembers some of the 27 young people who perished at Camp Mystic in the catastrophic flooding of the ...
Some camps in the region had to be evacuated, and local newspapers described how Camp Mystic was among those cut off from the ...
Amid chaos from the flood, campers huddled with young counselors—many unaware of the devastation just yards away.
What stands out most to Schmid are the values Mystic instilled in her, particularly during her final year as a camper, when ...
For nearly a century, Mystic has taught girls to be brave, confident, intelligent, fun, and kind. It taught them that God is ...
Former Camp Mystic camper and counselor Margaret Donnelly remembers the camp as a "magical place," as the search continues for the missing after deadly flooding in Kerr County.