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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 ...
Eastland had been part of the private Christian girls' camp since purchasing it in 1974 and had served as its director.
Home of the Brave
A few specific sounds punctuate summer evenings in rural Iowa. A chorus of spring peepers, for example, or the shrill conk-la ...
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 ...
This came as it was revealed that Camp Mystic co-owner Richard "Dick" Eastland died while heroically trying to save campers ...
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 ...