{"id":2446437,"date":"2019-07-17T09:34:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T15:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=859816"},"modified":"2019-07-17T09:34:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T15:34:13","slug":"bruce-springsteens-jersey-hometown-plans-career-spanning-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/bruce-springsteens-jersey-hometown-plans-career-spanning-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen\u2019s Jersey Hometown Plans Career-Spanning Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/bruce-freehold-exhibition.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>One of the highlights of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bruce-springsteen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bruce-springsteen\" data-tag=\"bruce-springsteen\">Bruce Springsteen<\/a>\u2019s hit Broadway show was the singer talking about his love of his hometown of Freehold, New Jersey. While he spent his early years singing about wanting to leave home, \u201cNow I live ten minutes away from where I grew up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Springsteen fans can get a deeper understanding why: New Jersey\u2019s Monmouth County Historical Association, located in Freehold, has announced <em>Springsteen: His Hometown<\/em>, a historical exhibit that promises to be \u201ca comprehensive look at how Monmouth County, NJ has been thematically woven into Bruce Springsteen\u2019s music and art throughout his career.\u201d It opens on September 29<sup>th<\/sup> (just a few days after Springsteen\u2019s 70<sup>th<\/sup> Birthday on the 23<sup>rd<\/sup>) and will run through the fall of 2020, with proceeds benefiting the historical association.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit will include more than 150 items, many from the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music at Monmouth University. The items range from early-career mementos (like an original color poster from Springsteen\u2019s first band the Castiles, a scrapbook put together by Springsteen\u2019s mother, Adele) to items that go further back in the Springsteen family tree (there is a 19<sup>th<\/sup> century Civil War document that includes Alexander Springsteen, one of Bruce\u2019s ancestors.)<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit was co-curated by Melissa Ziobro<strong>,&nbsp;<\/strong>Monmouth University\u2019s Specialist Professor of Public History and&nbsp;Bernadette Rogoff<strong>,&nbsp;<\/strong>Director of Collections for MCHA.&nbsp;&nbsp;Eileen Chapman<strong>,&nbsp;<\/strong>Director of The Archives, and&nbsp;Robert Santelli<strong>,&nbsp;<\/strong>founding director of the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, are advisors. Tickets are available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.SpringsteenHisHometown.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe MCHA is honored to have the opportunity to exhibit some of the most unique, and some never-before-seen items that reflect the unparalleled career and life of Bruce Springsteen,\u201d Linda Bricker, President, MCHA Board of Trustees, said in a statement. \u201cSpringsteen remains an essential part of the fabric that comprises the deep history of Monmouth County. We would especially like to thank Eileen Chapman, Melissa Ziobro and the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music for their continued generosity and collaboration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bruce-springsteens-jersey-hometown-plans-career-spanning-exhibit-859816\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the highlights of Bruce Springsteen\u2019s hit Broadway show was the singer talking about his love of his hometown of Freehold, New Jersey. While he spent his early years singing about wanting to leave home, \u201cNow I live ten minutes away from where I grew up,\u201d he said. Now, Springsteen fans can get a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 16:54:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}