Garrett Montgomery poses in his gifted Stump Company hat on Saturday, August 2, 2025, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

After eight years of trying to score a Stump Company baseball cap, Garrett Montgomery finally got his wish on Saturday in the beer garden at the Southeast Alaska State Fair. Company owner Scott Rossmanran into Montgomery and, upon hearing the younger man’s years-long dream, Rossman lifted the greasy, sawdust-coated  hat from his own…

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...