Carol McConahy in her studio talks about the small quilt auction during the 2024 Southeast Alaska State Fair in Haines, Alaska. Proceeds from the auction will go to the Haines Hot Shots. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Carol McConahy in her studio talks about the small quilt auction during the 2024 Southeast Alaska State Fair in Haines. Proceeds from the auction will go to the Haines Hot Shots. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

It’s a cool, drizzling morning in Haines and Carol McConahy is stacking the perfect antidote to the chill – a pile of quilts – in her Skyline Drive studio. 

For the second year, Southeast Alaska State Fair attendees will not…

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...