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The Texas Renaissance Festival (TRF) started in 1974 on the location of an old strip mining site. The festival claims to be "the nation’s largest Renaissance theme park." As of 2017, the festival sits on 55 acres of land, [2] and offers over 200 acres of camping facilities to patrons. The festival regularly draws over half a million guests ...
Middlefaire first opened with the Renaissance Festival on the weekend of October 14 and 15 in 2006. The 21-acre fair was created and owned by K. G. "Paul" Tuma, better known to fair-goers as Paul Delacroix. [1] The site featured several permanent buildings, about half of which were built by merchants who sell at the site.
Texas Renaissance Festival. Location: Todd Mission, Texas Era: 1500s (Tudor England) What to do: The nation's largest Renaissance fair is held on weekends in October and November on 55 acres ...
Ren Faire, HBO’s perceptive and surprisingly thrilling three-part portrait of the Texas Renaissance Festival as it approaches its 50th anniversary, is not that kind of story.
Florida Renaissance Festival – Deerfield Beach Florida: Quiet Waters Park, Deerfield Beach: 16th-century: 1993 stages (02a) February–March (4 weekends) 90k (2012) Florida RenFest: Florida Renaissance Festival – Miami Florida: Cauley Square Historic Village, Miami; semi-permanent Early 16th-century village: 2009 stages (04a) April 45k ...
The festival was started back in 1974, founded by brothers George and David Coulam, but after David’s death in 2017 his sibling George is now preparing, at the age of 86, to step aside.
He is the founder of the Texas Renaissance Festival (TRF), the largest Renaissance fair in the United States. [2] Since 1982, he has also served as the mayor of Todd Mission, Texas. [3] Coulam drew wider public attention after being featured in the 2024 HBO documentary series, Ren Faire.
In the documentary series "Ren Faire," premiering Sunday on HBO, Lance Oppenheim ("Some Kind of Heaven") trains his camera on the 50-year-old Texas Renaissance Festival, outside of Houston, which ...