Children's librarian Holly Davis helps Atticus White pick out the notes for Jingle Bells on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News )
Children’s librarian Holly Davis helps Atticus White pick out the notes for Jingle Bells on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News )

As it turns out, having a large group of piano students set up in the children’s section of the Haines borough public library isn’t nearly as loud as it could be. 

For the bulk of each of the 30-minute classes, students wear headphones and make soft clacking noises…

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...