European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ii the Hillbillies come Home thousands of people Are returning to by William Stevens York by the time he leaped the frigid Rcv Kurt trickling Down across a Snow dusted Bobby Joe Petrey had withdrawn into some Interior a he frequently Only the chirp of a Lone Bird intruded on the Winter quiet As slight and half swaggered toward the tog Cabin in we arc he was born 30years my great he bought this and the House was Here and he was in the civil he said when a visitor asked How old the log House Bobby Joe Petrey has come Home to the Cumberland Valley to just As he always said he would in the years like millions of other pilgrims who trekked from Job poor Appalachia to the Job Rich upper Middle he worked out there in Detroit to earn his stake in in an apparent reversal of one of the peal Migra tory ides of Industrial uncounted wave of appalachian Folk bit coming Bach from the ado rates and Mills of the Urban Back South to the Hills and mountains Ibal to cart an almost mystical hold on those who grew up in sleek suburban living rooms have Repta Edthe log and an the factory Clelles of Lite North age and shrink and an Northern manufacturing late dry places like the Cumberland an economic Backwater Only a decade arc growing and glowing with new economic the temperature plunged to 4 degrees Al Corbin on the morning of the visit to pc treys log Cabin so you could not exactly cat that part of Appal Scala the but it is sharing in the Sunbelt Industrial growth and population the of the reverse migration is but the movement is substantial and More people Are return ing from the North than Are going just within a two mile radius of his says Bobby Joe live perhaps a dozen families that have moved Back hmm de troit since he did in the adits in most of those families Are about his he roughly 20 percent More than in now live in the three county Region around that is among the country fastest growth the census Bureau estimates that Whalley where Petrey gained residents through migration Between 1970 and those people make up 21 percent of the the trend is widespread in Appa though the degree of growth rive Winters when his hair was Shorter and not As Petrey operated a Drill in one of the countless email Supply snaps hat feed Detroit automobile hillbilly and proud of pro claimed a Slicker on the Chevrolet pickup truck that be drove Between the Job and the Uny apartment where he lived with his one night Back As a country and Western per former Al lil Aimers lounge in Nort Central Detroit mournfully Sang Green grass of scores of Percy a brother Hillbillies pulled at their Long necked Beer bottles and thought of Kentucky or Tennessee or West i  give an acre Down there for this whole Petrey said As he sipped his brew that night in family and the in that is basically the lure that is stimulating the reverse exodus from de troit and Cleveland and Cincinnati and similar that is what Petrey and so does his year old Edward worked in Detroit for o years until last he has just moved with his wife Mildred and their two children into a new House within shouting distance of Bobby Joes equally Bright and Modem Home on a pleas ant Knoll not far from the stately Brick Home of the Young mens parents crowns the and just Down in a Little draw is the old log Home in a Lime when be american family generally seems to be Mph Odling into unrelated toe be treys and others like them Are putting it Back a week to extended in a idling thai to Obstet not mobility but attachment to place and plunging into Community life with an interest totally Welting during his Days in Bobby Joe Petrey k a new Cumberland River Bridge built and a new Park building on this Blun thai flows from his in he has gone into Etas waa easel elected to the Wuey county fiscal the county governing in the he never once registered to f1scal Coult we fee Public Allam of one of three counties taken to form an evolving sort of miniature Kcf but not quite Urban or it with elements of All three i Bil disc jetted Community dependent on the s n and towns i to Detroit in f3 de pet on route 2s from where hillbilly proud of read sticker on Petrys pickup when he was in Page 10 the stars and stripes Ive Long voiced Ike is different now is that there Art