Flooding in the Hill Country Is a Centuries-Old Story
Deadly floods are far more common in Central Texas than we sometimes care to remember—or prepare ourselves for. Less than a month before last week’s tragic events in the Hill Country, slow-moving ...
What Camp La Junta Taught Me About Courage
In 1836, brothers Joseph and Nathaniel Kerr of Lake Providence, Louisiana, set off on horses to join the Texas Revolution. Joseph died fighting at the Alamo; Nathaniel was felled by an illness shortly...
What Dick and Tweety Eastland Meant for Camp Mystic
It’s easy, in reading the news accounts of the horrific drownings of so many young campers in the Hill Country floods, to miss what Camp Mystic has meant to generations of a certain kind of Texas wo...
The Beauty and the Danger of the Guadalupe River
“When the river takes you, don’t fight it,” my parents told me when I was about nine years old. “If it takes you under, focus your effort on holding your breath—it will push you back up.” ...