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Camp Mystic Owners’ Legacy: ‘If You’re a Camper, You Know Who They Are’
For decades, Dick and Tweety Eastland presided over Camp Mystic with a kind of magisterial benevolence that alumni well past ...
Camp Mystic hero killed saving girls spent years fighting for better safety after pregnant wife airlifted from flood
Hero Texas camp director Richard “Dick” Eastland battled floods for decades and even saw his pregnant wife once airlifted off the grounds to a hospital because of a deluge.
Richard ‘Dick’ Eastland, Camp Mystic’s 74-year-old owner, died while leading campers to safety during the devastating floods
Richard “Dick” Eastland, the owner and director of Camp Mystic in Kerr County, Texas, died while helping campers get to ...
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What Dick and Tweety Eastland Meant for Camp Mystic
The duo offered a place where parents knew their daughters would be enriched and happy. During the tragic floods, Dick ...
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Camp Mystic’s owner warned of floods for decades. Then the river ...
A separate article reported that five Camp Mystic counselors “had their automobiles swept into the Guadalupe River” by flood waters that year.And in 1985, Eastland’s wife Tweety, then ...
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 ...
Nonprofit reunites Camp Mystic campers with 'lost' stuffed toys
The Lost Stuffy Project founder Randi Jaffe told "Good Morning America" it's an immediate step that's making an "essential" ...