Cholula

The Quil family, butchers from generation to generation, left San Pedro Cholula, Puebla, about 79 miles away, on Dec. 9 and said they walked for 24 hours.

“I remember very clearly as a kid not having that representation, not having that visibility and not feeling OK with who I was,” said Cholula Lemon, a drag performer in New York who has read to children at dozens of events and asked to be referred to by her stage name.

For example, by examining skeletal remains, anthropologist Meggan Bullock and colleagues found that in the city of Cholula, Mexico, between 900 and 1531, most people who made it to adulthood lived past the age of 50.

She situated it in what she described as a long tradition of mask-wearing in Mexico, which extended to pre-Hispanic times and included an ancient stone head found at the Great Pyramid of Cholula.

Some drizzled in Cholula, others swore by Tabasco or Tapatío.