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Richard “Dick” Eastland, the hero director of Camp Mystic, had battled floods on the grounds for decades and even once saw ...
A Camp Mystic program director said she went from sleeping in her bed early Friday morning to standing on the rooftop less ...
Young campers and a dad saving his family were among the dozens killed in the historic flash floods that tore through central ...
Eastland had been part of the private Christian girls' camp since purchasing it in 1974 and had served as its director.
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A few specific sounds punctuate summer evenings in rural Iowa. A chorus of spring peepers, for example, or the shrill conk-la ...
Eastland, 70, was the camp director and bought the camp in 1974. When floodwaters swept through his Christen summer camp, he ...
A Crawford girl is reflecting on her time at Camp Mystic just weeks before deadly floods claimed the lives of campers and ...
In the early morning of July 4, floods ravaged the Texas Hill Country. In less than an hour, the Guadalupe River rose 26 feet ...
Despite this history, generations of parents sent their daughters to Camp Mystic, an all-girls Christian summer retreat facing the Guadalupe River in western Kerr County. Parents who spoke to the ...
THE director of Camp Mystic desperately tried to save young girls in a heartbreaking final act before the vacation spot was swamped by flooding. At least 27 campers and staffers were killed in the … ...
This came as it was revealed that Camp Mystic co-owner Richard "Dick" Eastland died while heroically trying to save campers ...
‘He died trying to save Mystic girls’: Flood victims are named — and mourned Among the scores of people killed in catastrophic flash floods were children at summer camp and a man who smashed ...