Article 6YH6G Texas’s Camp Mystic was ‘a place of joy’. Floods turned it into a site of great loss

Texas’s Camp Mystic was ‘a place of joy’. Floods turned it into a site of great loss

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Edward Helmore in Kerr county, Texas
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The nearly 100-year-old institute, which now lies in ruins, was the go-to summer camp for girls in the state

The loss of 27 campers and counsellors from Camp Mystic to the Texas Hill Country flood may serve, at a terrible cost, to expand its considerable reputation across Texas and beyond. Even as the floods claimed more lives along the valley - at least 120 confirmed dead and 160 people unaccounted for as of Tuesday - the loss of several Mystic Girls" has dominated the headlines.

The camp, which offers two four-week terms and one two-week term over the summer, has been the go-to summer camp for daughters of Texans for nearly a century. It's so popular that fathers have been known to call the registrar to get their daughters on the list from the delivery room.

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