Burl Sheldon teaches a guitar workshop during the Alaska Folk Festival on April 13, in Juneau. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

It’s late afternoon on Saturday at the Alaska Folk Festival and more than a dozen people are sitting in a small room at Juneau’s Centennial Hall. Most are holding guitars. It’s quiet, except for the occasional idle strum as people wait. 

Burl Sheldon teaches a guitar workshop during the Alaska Folk Festival on April 13,…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...