![]() So while Springsteen is Freehold’s main lure, it holds centuries of American lore, too. It all played out here, and Springsteen and his ancestors have been part of every stage.” In the museum’s permanent exhibition, the 1778 Battle of Monmouth is commemorated by two valuable objects: a Dennis Carter painting of revolutionary folk heroine Molly Pitcher with George Washington and another of the battle itself by Emanuel Leutze, better known for his Washington Crossing the Delaware (in New York’s Met).īorough historian Kevin Coyne, who is also a Columbia University journalism professor and features in a mini-documentary about the town, said: “A little piece of everything that has happened in America has happened here: colonial settlers, the revolution, the civil war, agricultural prosperity, the rise and fall of manufacturing, racial tensions, creeping suburbanisation. The exhibition’s genealogical section, tracing the life of Joost Springsteen, the Boss’s earliest New Amsterdam ancestor, offers ways to explore beyond the town’s famous son. ![]() Parked in the museum’s garden is an antique truck the musician and his manager used to travel from gig to gig – and to Woodstock. Clothes, including boots and a leather bomber from the 1980s, sit alongside a Bruce Springsteen board game created and marketed in Europe by a French fan. There are unreturned keys from hotels Springsteen stayed at early in his career, and a letter to his landlady where he admits to practising his autograph. ![]() Some are the MCHA’s own, others come from the Springsteen Archives of Monmouth University in Long Branch (his town of birth), with more from private collectors and the Boss himself. More than 150 objects are on display at the exhibition, which runs until the end of September 2020. Scrapbook made by Bruce Springsteen’s mother, Adele. ![]()
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