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Before the Central Texas Floods, the Owners of Camp Mystic Were a Fixture

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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Campers’ belongings outside cabins at Camp Mystic, where 27 died in the floods.

Camp Mystic Parents Endure Agonizing Wait for Their Missing Children

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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Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas, on Saturday. The camp has been run by the same family for almost a century.

Camp Mystic in Texas, Where 20 Children Are Missing, Is Nearly a Century Old

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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The flooded Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas, on Friday. At least 20 girls were missing from Camp Mystic, a nearly century-old girls camp nearby.

Some Americans Are Protesting the Trump Administration on July 4

While demonstrations from Washington to Los Angeles were largely festive, with food trucks and live music, protesters were determined to speak for their cause.

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Demonstrators gathered in Los Angeles to protest the Trump administration, one of hundreds of protests around the country on Friday.
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