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The spirit of Camp Mystic: How the summer camp became a Texas tradition for generations of girls
Former campers and counselors speak on how the famed Hill Country camp became more than a place for summer games.
Remembering the girls and leaders of Camp Mystic lost to the Kerr County floods
Through obituaries and social media tributes, The Dallas Morning News pieced together the lives of more than a dozen Camp ...
Fort Worth Camp Mystic girls sell jewelry, raise thousands for Texas flood aid
Children in the Tanglewood neighborhood with connections to Camp Mystic and victims of the Central Texas floods are making ...
Camp Mystic girls had a safe haven by the river for 100 years. Then, the flood came.
In the week since the flood, generations of Mystic Girls are turning to each other. They are seeking the familiar that takes ...
Girls as young as 7 were startled awake by flooding that devastated their beloved Camp Mystic. How the deadly tragedy unfolded
The emergency weather alert had come early Fourth of July morning: There would be life-threatening flash flooding in Kerr ...
8-year-old Bellaire girl wrote a letter to mom from Camp Mystic before deadly floods
Blakely McCrory, an 8-year-old from Bellaire, wrote her mom a letter from Camp Mystic before she died in the July 4 flood.
In the dark, amid screams, a Camp Mystic counselor had 16 girls and one headlamp
The first drops of rain had yet to fall when Ainslie Bashara, a counselor at Camp Mystic, noticed that one of the younger ...
What to know about Camp Mystic, as death toll from girls' camp reaches 27
About 700 children were at Camp Mystic when flash floods hit on Friday. Here's what we know about the storied summer camp for ...
Video shows Camp Mystic girls sing as they are evacuated from Texas floods
The video was posted to TikTok by Devon Paige, a Texas-based nurse who had been working at the summer camp. It has been ...
Texas flood victims include young girls, Camp Mystic staff, teachers, grandparents: "Unimaginable grief"
Young girls, camp employees and vacationers are among the more than 130 people who died when Texas' Guadalupe River flooded.
Seventh Camp Mystic girl from Dallas dies in Central Texas flood, family confirms
Virginia Wynne Naylor, 8, was at Camp Mystic, a girls' summer camp with cabins along the river in a rural part of Kerr County ...
Camp Mystic’s ‘littlest souls’ were nurtured in Bubble Inn. All the cabin’s girls and 2 counselors were lost in the Texas flood
Bubble Inn saw generations of 8-year-olds enter as strangers and emerge as confident young ladies equipped with new skills from the great outdoors and lifelong friends – bonds that would one day prove ...