Lindsey Finnan with her son, Atlin, is the new K-12 art teacher, shown here on September 21, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News )
Lindsey Finnan with her son, Atlin, is the new K-12 art teacher, shown here on September 21, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News )

On a recent in-service day, Lindsey Finnan sat in her art classroom holding her three-month old son Atlin Tate. As he gurgled and chattered in the background, Finnan talked about her family’s move to the Chilkat Valley two years ago. 

Finnan and her husband Austin live at mile 25…

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...