Waxahachie Daily Light On Saturday, April 10, the Scarborough Renaissance Festival reopened its doors in celebration of its 40th anniversary for opening weekend. Last year, the festival was unable to open its doors to celebrate its big 4-0 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. "We closed down two weeks before are scheduled opening. It could not have been worst timing for us. Initially, we had postponed it for four weeks, hoping that we could run it in May at the time, and then as we got closer to April, we realized, 'OK this thing is getting worse and there's just no way we could do it'. So we completely closed down."