Dear editor:

I am a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada, where I research rural population change on the Great Plains.

It is my understanding that Edmunds County and surrounding areas experienced considerable outmigration in the 1970s and 1980s. I will be visiting South Dakota the week of June 10, and I am hoping to meet people who remember those decades well, and are willing to share their views on the causes of rural population loss.

If any of your readers are willing to share with me their experience of that period, either by email or in person when I am in Edmunds County...