Codi Ingram, of Whitehorse, waits to be dropped into a dunk tank during a Father’s Day car show on Sunday, June 16, 2024, in Haines. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

A  275-gallon water tank in the back of a box truck at the end of the Small Boat Harbor Parking Lot slowly drains its contents into a  dunk tank on the hot asphalt. Next to the tank, a pop-up canopy shades a table filled with carafes…

Francisco Martínezcuello is the Chilkat Valley News summer reporter. Previously, he was in Southwest Alaska working for KYUK Public Media as a News Reporting Fellow from November 2022 through January...