Camp Mystic was the totemic rite of passage for girls from establishment families in the American South: Lyndon Johnson sent his daughters there, Laura Bush worked there as a counselor years before becoming First Lady,

Former campers and counselors speak on how the famed Hill Country camp became more than a place for summer games.

When the Guadalupe River rose to historic heights shortly before dawn on the Fourth of July, it swept away miles of homes, cars and families in Kerr County, killing at least 116 people. Among them were 27 girls and counselors from Camp Mystic,