Eastland, 70, was the camp director and bought the camp in 1974. When floodwaters swept through his Christen summer camp, he ...

The camp director and co-owner of Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, died in the catastrophic flooding as he reportedly raced to save the lives of his young campers. Dick Eastland, who purchased the camp in ...

Camp Mystic director Richard "Dick" Eastland died while attempting to rescue campers during deadly flooding that tore through parts of Central Texas.

HUNT, Texas - A co-owner and director of Camp Mystic in Kerr County has died as a result of the July 4 flooding, according to a Texas representative. According to Rep. August Pfluger, Dick Eastland ...

Camp Mystic survivors have described hearing the terrifying screams of their fellow campers in the dark as they were swept up ...

Three Texas governors, Dan Moody, John Connally, and Price Daniel, all sent their daughters to Camp Mystic between the 1930s ...

TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager, whose mom, former first lady Laura Bush, worked at Camp Mystic, opens up about the community there ...

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 ...

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.

The catastrophic flash flooding that ravaged the Texas Hill Country on Friday claimed the life of the longtime director of a popular girls' summer camp. This tragedy is different from the current ...

Oversight was loosened as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before the floods, a review ...

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.