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Last year, on the Fourth of July, the deadliest American flash flood in 50 years resulted in the death of 25 young campers and 2 counselors at Camp Mystic, in Hunt, Texas, including everyone in a cabin called Bubble Inn. The group of girls who died became known as ‘Heaven’’s 27. It had not occurred to the families that a Mystic camp session in 2026 would be open to debate. But in September, the Eastlands, whose family has owned the camp for more than 80 years, emailed the camp community with news that Mystic was indeed open for business. It was the Stewards, who lost their daughter Cile, who responded most forcefully. “You are preparing,” they wrote in response, “to invite children to swim in the very river that may still hold our daughter’s body.” In early November, seven of the families filed three separate lawsuits against Camp Mystic, alleging negligence and detailing bizarre behavior by the Eastlands, and in March, the Steward family asked the court for a restraining order that would preserve part of the camp as a “crime scene.” In the end, the court agreed to a temporary injunction preventing further remodeling to the camp’s Guadalupe River site, though nothing would prevent Cypress Lake from reopening for the 853 girls who were, according to Mystic’s lawyer, signed up to attend. “The idea that your daughters will return to the same Camp Mystic is a farce,” Caitlin Bonner, who lost her daughter Lila, said, “and anyone incapable of accepting that is as delusional as the camp leadership.” There is little disagreement about what happened that night. The disagreement is about whether it was an act of God or the fault of camp leadership. For our Cover Story, Kerry Howley reports on the tragedy of Camp Mystic — and the battle over the camp’s future: nymag.visitlink.me/EZVvbc

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Greg Abbott: “If kids are skipping class, going out protesting, those schools are not going to be paid for that day.”













