The first time Allie Coates ran barefoot across the buffalo grass at Camp Mystic, she was 8. Her tiny strides nestled among the cypress trees near the Guadalupe River. She caught a catfish, mailed her ...
When I was little, I asked God for straight hair. I begged him to persuade my ballet instructor to let me dance en pointe instead of holding me back to give my ankles another year to strengthen. And I ...
In 1939, Ag Stacy and her husband purchased Camp Mystic: 600 acres along the Guadalupe River, a place where little girls as young as 7 would learn to paddle a canoe and carry themselves with good ...