Every year that my boys were in elementary school, we would make sugar skulls for Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) for ...

But the families who’d turned out, and Mexican Heritage Society of Port Arthur members who’d already come with faces painted ... (Day of the Dead celebrations) as being scary (with the skulls ...

adults and children dressed as calacas (skeletons), their skull-painted faces grinning; the glow of elaborate altars created to honor the dead; and the earthy scent of copal rising all around.