“Music & the Spoken Word” has been on the air since 1929. Much has changed, yet much has remained exactly the same.

Periods of religious zealotry and an unsettled professional career were intertwined for years before he was accused of murder.

The children who lost their lives at Camp Mystic were not scattered through the camp. Almost every one of them was in either the Bubble Inn or Twins cabins, which housed the youngest campers.

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He was a theologically uncompromising pastor in Southern California who influenced generations of evangelical preachers.

For decades, Dick and Tweety Eastland presided over Camp Mystic with a kind of magisterial benevolence that alumni well past childhood still describe with awe.

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Stories of rescues have begun trickling out, but some children from a storied summer camp on the Guadalupe River in Texas Hill Country remain unaccounted for.

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Gonflé par la pluie, le fleuve Guadalupe est sorti de son lit et a balayé un camp d’été et ses environs, faisant au moins 24 morts et déclenchant des recherches frénétiques pour retrouver des enfants et d’autres disparus, vendredi, dans le centre du Texas.

Camp Mystic, on the banks of the Guadalupe River near Hunt, Texas, has been operated by generations of the same family since the 1930s.

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