(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) Tom Ganner and Melina Shields hold up a pair of Haines pilot Sam Wright’s boxers which were shot from a cannon as part of a day of events to commemorate his life on Saturday, August 24, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. Shields guessed that they’d fly 156 feet and Ganner 150., they landed at 153.
(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) Dozens of people attended a cannon blast memorializing Haines pilot Sam Wright on…

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...