Before the Central Texas Floods, the Owners of Camp Mystic Were a Fixture NYT | Top Stories By: Ruth Graham 12 July 2025 at 04:32 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. © Callaghan O'Hare for The New York TimesCampers’ belongings outside cabins at Camp Mystic, where 27 died in the floods.