Texas History
February 28, 2022
The Story Behind the Story: “The Greatest Experience of Your Life”
A popular columnist embeds herself inside the exclusive world of girls’ summer camps.
Summer Camp
News & Politics
July 21, 2020
Texas Kids Got COVID-19 at Summer Camp. Is School Next?
Camp Pine Cove adopted a number of safety precautions to prevent the coronavirus’s spread. It still came.
Style & Design
May 1, 2018
Thank You, James Avery, for My Charmed Life
The iconic Texas jeweler, who died Monday at age 96, created mementos of my childhood that I will cherish forever.
The Texanist
August 24, 2016
Endless Summers
Welcome to Camp Honey Creek for girls, where the years tick by but time stands still.
Travel & Outdoors
April 7, 2016
Summer Camp: Not Just For The Kids
Yes, overnight camps for grown-ups are really a thing.
Feature
January 21, 2013
The Not So Happy Campers
For more than seven decades, Camp Mystic has been one of the prettiest, happiest, and most exclusive destinations in Texas. But after a bitter, multimillion-dollar legal battle, the very thing that the owners cherished—family—may be the force that tears the camp apart for good.
Being Texan
April 30, 1975
The Greatest Experience of Your Life
Climbing the social ladder, and other exercises at Hill Country summer camps.