i feel like i am harsh on colby kansas but it is so much further down that line. and this woman, sarah, she shared with us while she was doing her project she went back to colby and it was christmas of 2007. and she stood on the main street on a saturday afternoon for three hours and she met one person in three hours. she said the bank had piped christmas music coming out on a loudspeaker and it was just kind of a cooling off the town. she said it was the curious thing she ever saw. again, a very poignant way of sort of giving you a window onto what can happen when you don't think about what the future can hold if you don't take action on what we are trying to get started here. >> i've got a question. on the research that you've done was basically on the group that graduated in the late 80's, early 90's. and that is when the computer age was just coming out out, when you were in high school, you did a little bit, but not a whole lot. really the big world wide web and the social networking haven't come around yet. do you see that changing things, and how for younger

just to reiterate i was in colby, kansas, this summer. we might have a little sniffle but they have pneumonia. >> you are absolutely right. >> things have happened here that had to make us look inward. the potential closing of rockwell. you can't just say it won't make any difference. it will. it is part of the unraveling. >> let me just share a little further tidbit about colby. it is so much further down that line. this woman sarah shared with us, she went back to colby and it was christmas of 2007. she stood in the main street on saturday afternoon for three hours. and she met one person in three hours. she said to -- the bank had hiked christmas music over the loudspeaker and it was just echoing off of this empty town. it was the eeriest thing she ever saw. a very poignant way of giving you a window on what can happen when you don't think about what the future can hold and don't take action. we are trying to get started here. >> i have a question. on the research you have done was basically on the group that graduated in the 80s and 9

unraveling. >> right and again, let me just share a little further tidbit about colby and i feel like i am harsh on called the kansasut it is, it is so much further down that line and this woman sarah, she shared with us i think while she was doing her part she went back to colby and it was christmas of 2007. she stood in main st. colby on a saturday afternoon for three hours and she met one person in three hours. she said the bank had piped christmas music coming out on the loudspeaker and it was at going off of this emptied town and she said it was the erie is the thing she ever saw. again it was a very poignant way of giving you a window onto what can happen when you don't think about what the future can hold that if you don't take action. that is what we are trying to sort of get started here. >> i have got a question. on the research that you have done was basically on the group that graduated in the late '80s and early '90s and that is when the computer age was just coming about. when you were in high school you did a little bit on it but not a whole lot. really the big wide web and the social networking, arou

i left colby to go to college where i received a ba in political science and a masters degree in regional and community planning. a master's degrees from kansas state, where another rutgers graduate was on my professors. being from a rural era and theme the continuing rapid decline of population, one of my passions is understanding borough population decline and the death of this community.