It was a Monday afternoon, June 30, and Dick and Tweety Eastland were in their customary place at this time of year: welcoming another crop of girls to the summer camp in Hunt, Texas, that their family has presided over for most of its 99 years.

The previous day, girls had reached Camp Mystic’s main campus for the start of the summer’s second term. Now it was opening day at its sister campus just down the road, Camp Mystic Cypress Lake.

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