Juniata College Language in Motion Students Teach CHS Students About Hispanic Culture

On Oct. 31, 2023, Mr. Kevin Buynack and Miss Louise Wilson's Spanish I-IV classes attended a presentation about el Día de los Muertos ("The Day of the Dead") in the Central High School auditorium.

Hispanic people celebrate el Día de los Muertos on Nov. 1 (All Saints' Day and El Día de los Inocentes, or "The Day of the Children") and Nov. 2 (All Souls' Day). This celebration of the lives of those who have passed away includes eating foods and enjoying drinks that the deceased loved ones liked, creating colorful calaveras, or skulls, and calacas, or skeletons (which are usually made out of sugar...