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Click on the image and use the scroll wheel on your mouse to zoom in and out. You can also move around by simply clicking and dragging on the image. Probably best enjoyed in the full screen version.

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Click on the image and use the scroll wheel on your mouse to zoom in and out. You can also move around by simply clicking and dragging on the image. Probably best enjoyed in the full screen version.

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Click on the image and use the scroll wheel on your mouse to zoom in and out. You can also move around by simply clicking and dragging on the image. Probably best enjoyed in the full screen version.

Martin Allen Hall is named after Martin Allen who settled in Hays City in 1873 and attempted to make improvements to the city by planting and cultivating in the surrounding areas. Allen was the man most responsible for Old Fort Hays becoming a College. Martin Allen Hall is the home of the Psychology Department.

This image was shot in mid-July 2008. If you look closely you can see evidence of some of the construction that was just getting going on campus at that time. You might also spot my GigaPanning assistants Edi and Berti if you look closely.

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Click on the image and use the scroll wheel on your mouse to zoom in and out. You can also move around by simply clicking and dragging on the image. Probably best enjoyed in the full screen version.

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Click on the image and use the scroll wheel on your mouse to zoom in and out. You can also move around by simply clicking and dragging on the image. Probably best enjoyed in the full screen version.

To begin the series I’ve selected a GigaPan I shot this past spring of the Tea Rose Inn Bed & Breakfast at the corner of Fort and Thirteenth Streets. I haven’t stayed there myself, but perhaps someone who has can comment on what the experience was like.

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Although I can’t say I’ll miss much of the banter that made up the site’s day to day traffic, I do think that 67601.com served a noble purpose in giving ordinary citizens a place to publicly publish their thoughts and conduct conversations on matters of importance to the community. I would hope that those members who wish to continue to be heard and to continue the valuable conversations begun there consider starting blogs of their own, as I have here at Fortress Hays. Discussions in the blogosphere may lack some of the immediacy of a discussion board like 67601.com, but they can be a conduit for concerned citizens to speak publicly on matters of local importance. Many free and/or low cost hosted blogging services exist – I’d suggest Wordpress or Blogger, to name just two. If you do begin a blog with a local focus, please post a comment here with a pointer to your new site. I’ll try to aggregate a blogroll (in the right hand sidebar) of those who do so.

Thanks for all of your efforts over the years Michael. 67601.com will not be soon forgotten.

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Click on the image and use the scroll wheel on your mouse to zoom in and out. You can also move around by simply clicking and dragging on the image. Probably best enjoyed in the full screen version.

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Click on the image and use the scroll wheel on your mouse to zoom in and out. You can also move around by simply clicking and dragging on the image. Probably best enjoyed in the full screen version.