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LETTERS that were written by children staying at Camp Mystic have started to arrive at their families’ homes after they died ...
A MOM who lost her daughter in the floods that swept through Texas’ Camp Mystic has shared details of a letter she wrote before her death.  Notes that children had written to their parents ...
A few specific sounds punctuate summer evenings in rural Iowa. A chorus of spring peepers, for example, or the shrill conk-la ...
Camp Mystic director died during Texas floods. Camp Mystic director Richard "Dick" Eastland is among those who died during the flooding. He and his wife, Tweety, had been running the camps for decades ...
The hero Camp Mystic director Richard “Dick” Eastland had battled floods on the grounds for decades and even once saw his pregnant wife airlifted from the property because of a deluge ...
Both CNN's Pamela Brown and TODAY's Jenna Bush Hager are sharing their personal connection to the devastating floods in Texas ...
Camp Mystic owner and executive director Dick Eastland. - Courtesy George Eastland. Dick Eastland warned for decades about the hidden dangers of the beautiful but volatile Guadalupe River, ...
Charlotte Lauten, 19, spent nine summers at Camp Mystic, mostly recently in 2023. She said she didn't recall ever receiving instructions as a camper on what do in the case of a weather emergency.
Eastland, the camp’s executive director, had moved to its grounds in the Texas Hill Country in the 1970s with his wife, Willetta, ... who attended Camp Mystic in the 1990s.
A small-town grandma who disappeared on her way to work. A beloved director of Texas summer camp for girls. An Alabama elementary student away from home. These are a few of the dozens of victims ...
Camp Mystic, which largely sits in a flood-prone area, lost 27 campers and counselors in the disaster. No cabin suffered more than Bubble Inn. Most of its 15 campers and counselors were killed.