Mimes tour Spenard

Updated: July 31, 2017 Published: July 30, 2017

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Melissa Jabaay reacts as Brian Hutton leads a mime skills training session before the mime bike tour of Spearnd in Anchorage, Alaska on Saturday, July 29, 2017. MimeSpenard teamed up with Spenard Bike Nation to tour the highlights of the Spenard neighborhood of Anchorage. (Bob Hallinen / Alaska Dispatch News)

MimeSpenard teamed up with Spenard Bike Nation to conduct tours of the highlights of the Spenard neighborhood in Anchorage on Saturday, July 29, 2017.

Participants gathered at the Spenard Farmers Market to meet their mime tour guides and get turned into mimes themselves by makeup artists. After Anchorage artist Brian Hutton conducted a mime training session, they all headed out on a tour of the Anchorage neighborhood.

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Bob Hallinen

Bob Hallinen has been a photojournalist in Alaska since the 1980s and has traveled extensively all over the state. He retired from the ADN in November 2018 after 33 years at the newspaper.