News

A 'plucky force of nature': Grieving family honors Camp Mystic 8-year-old Cile Steward
The 8-year-old was the final missing Camp Mystic girl after floods overtook the shores of the Guadalupe River in parts of ...
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
Coco Grieshaber, an 8-year-old Camp Mystic alumna, threaded beads into a homemade bracelet at her dining room table, sharing ...
Camp Mystic leader may not have seen urgent alert before Texas flood, family spokesman says
A spokesman for Camp Mystic, the Texas enclave devastated by a July 4 flash flood, is raising concerns about communication ...
NOLA.com1d
Louisiana woman who evacuated campers from Camp Mystic during Texas floods gets high honor
Gov. Jeff Landry honors Louisiana college student Emma Foltz for evacuating 14 summer campers during the deadly July 4 ...
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 ...
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 It Means to Be a Mystic Girl
For nearly a century, Mystic has taught girls to be brave, confident, intelligent, fun, and kind. It taught them that God is ...
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 was spending her first summer at the Christian girls' summer camp, and she told mom, Lindsey McLeod McCrory, ...
A girl’s death in Texas floods is her family’s third loss this year. 3 mementos she left help her mom cope
The last time Lindsey McLeod McCrory saw her daughter Blakely alive, the young girl was heading to camp wearing a simple yet profound necklace – one that would later reconnect Blakely to her mother ...