NEW YORK — Bruce Springsteen’s born in the U.S.A. and now, a new exhibition space devoted to his life and work will open in a New Jersey firehouse.
A joint project of Freehold Borough and the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music at Monmouth University in West Long Branch was announced on Tuesday at the Freehold Fire Department building, which will house the exhibition space.
“Everything I learned of deep importance, I learned in this town,” the 72-year-old Grammy Award-winning Rock & Roll Hall of Famer said during an onsite press conference. “You learn most of what makes you who you are by the time you are ... by the time you’re 12, maybe; maybe your teen years. I had all the usual joy and heartbreak of growing up in a small town like this, and of course the minute the opportunity arose — I got the hell out.”
