For 45 seasons, Scarborough Renaissance Festival has stood as a Texas institution, welcoming generations of families, travelers and tradition-seekers to step back in time to the 16th century each spring. In 2026, the Festival celebrates its milestone 45th season with eight weekends of immersive entertainment, legendary performances and new experiences that underscore its place in the cultural fabric of the state.

Treasure hunters, road-trippers, bargain shoppers, and families are invited to travel through the Red River Valley region of Texas for the annual US Hwy 82/287 Yard Sale, happening Friday, June 5 and Saturday, June 6, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The fifth annual Juneteenth Fashion Show presented by Legacy West and produced by Think Three Media will return to the Lexus Box Garden at Legacy Hall on June 19, with doors opening at 5:30 p.m. photo credit: Ari Talton

Every spring across Texas, wildlife rehabilitators open their homes, empty their wallets, sacrifice sleep, and devote countless unpaid hours to saving orphaned and injured wildlife. From tiny squirrels needing feedings every few hours through the night, to injured birds, opossums, raccoons, and other native wildlife, these volunteers step in where no one else can. Now many wildlife rehabilitators fear proposed changes to Texas wildlife rehabilitation regulations could unintentionally create additional barriers for the very people helping fill this critical need.

She is known globally as the founder of modern nursing and health informatics, and her pioneering methods in care were credited with saving countless lives. Now, a trove of artifacts chronicling the life and service of the world’s most famous nurse, Florence Nightingale, has a new home at Texas Woman’s University.

1902 – Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer. The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient Greek hand-powered orrery (model of the Solar System). It is the oldest known example of an analogue computer. It could be used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance. It could also be used to track the four-year cycle of athletic games similar to an olympiad, the cycle of the ancient Olympic Games. The artifact was among wreckage retrieved from a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera in 1901. In 2005, a team from Cardiff University led by Mike Edmunds used computer X-ray tomography and high resolution scanning to image inside fragments of the crust-encased mechanism and read faint inscriptions that once covered the outer casing. These scans suggest that the mechanism had 37 meshing bronze gears enabling it to follow the movements of the Moon and the Sun through the zodiac, to predict eclipses and to model the irregular orbit of the Moon, where the Moon's velocity is higher in its perigee than in its apogee. This motion was studied in the 2nd century BC by astronomer Hipparchus of Rhodes, and he may have been consulted in the machine's construction. There is speculation that a portion of the mechanism is missing and it calculated the positions of the five classical planets. The inscriptions were further deciphered in 2016, revealing numbers connected with the synodic cycles of Venus and Saturn. The instrument is believed to have been designed and constructed by Hellenistic scientists and been variously dated to about 87 BC, between 150 and 100 BC, or 205 BC. It must have been constructed before the shipwreck, which has been dated by multiple lines of evidence to approximately 70–60 BC. In 2022, researchers proposed its initial calibration date, not construction date, could have been 23 December 178 BC. Other experts propose 204 BC as a more likely calibration date. Machines with similar complexity did not appear again until the 14th century in western Europe.