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How can families handle anxiety around summer camp after the Texas floods?
When tragedies are in the news — natural disasters, plane crashes, fires — parents naturally and unavoidably react by ...
What Camp Gives Girls
A few specific sounds punctuate summer evenings in rural Iowa. A chorus of spring peepers, for example, or the shrill conk-la ...
Heartbreaking letters Camp Mystic children wrote to their family arrive days after they died in Texas floods
LETTERS that were written by children staying at Camp Mystic have started to arrive at their family’s homes – just days after ...
A Lost Summer Idyll
Al-Assad’s victims included protesters, activists, journalists, students, loyalists who fell out of favor and members of ...
Camp Mystic was a sacred place for Dallas’ daughters. Then tragedy struck
For nearly a century, Camp Mystic has been the Hill Country respite for Dallas’ daughters.
Camp Mystic confirms 27 deaths, 11 still missing after deadly Texas flooding: What we know
The girls summer camp devastated by the Kerr County flood reports the death toll has risen to 27. Here's what we know about ...
Texas flood victims include young girls, Camp Mystic staff, teachers, grandparents: "Unimaginable grief"
Young girls, camp employees and vacationers are among the at least 120 people who died when Texas' Guadalupe River flooded.
Heroics of Texas camp counselors cast spotlight on those who oversee millions of US kids each summer
As floodwaters rose in Texas, camp counselors hoisted children onto rafters, carried them to dry ground and sang with them to ...
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'Where time stood still': Former campers, counselors reflect on how Camp Mystic shaped their lives
What stands out most to Schmid are the values Mystic instilled in her, particularly during her final year as a camper, when ...
Twin 8-year-olds and Camp Mystic’s director are among those mourned after Texas floods
By SOPHIA TAREEN A beloved director of Texas summer camp for girls. An Alabama elementary student away from home. A woman ...
Twin 8-year-old girls, a beloved soccer coach and camp director among those killed in Texas floods
Authorities say search and rescue efforts are still underway, including for campers missing from a summer camp for girls.
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A Love Letter to Camp Mystic - The New York Times
A Love Letter to Camp Mystic At least 27 of the people killed in the Texas floods were at a century-old summer camp. One former attendee explains what the camp meant to generations of girls.