Camp Mystic was the totemic rite of passage for girls from establishment families in the American South: Lyndon Johnson sent ...

On July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the first nuclear bomb in New Mexico on what’s now the White Sands Missile Range. About 40 miles away from the Trinity test site, a group of girls at a ...

Camp Mystic counselor Katherine Ferruzzo of Houston lost her life in the flooding. Her family released a statement, sharing that their daughter had been accepted to the University of Texas at ...

At Camp Mystic’s Bug House cabin, Eastland and his son, Edward, a camp director, helped a group of girls – clutching pillows and blankets – evacuate in ankle-deep water to the nearby recreation hall, ...

Eastland, who ran Camp Mystic for decades along with his wife, “started to assess immediately himself after (the) warning and, in the process, contacted family by walkie-talkie,” Eastland ...