Monmouth County Historical Association — Attraction in Freehold

I attended the Springsteen: His Hometown exhibit and I was rather disappointed! There wasn’t a lot of real memorabilia and I felt it was more like a Freehold exhibit! There was more about his family than him. I understand it was “his hometown” but it seemed like they needed to add his name to it so people would come in to hear and see about Freehold! Not worth the money for it, thank goodness I’m part of NARM and it was...

I went during a break from jury duty (the courthouse is across the street), and was welcomed by a friendly volunteer. The painting in the lobby is wonderful and original (Leutz, I think?) and the exhibits are always top-notch. I was lucky enough to be meet their archivist who answered some family history questions for me, and gave me suggestions for further reading. I can't wait to go back to the...

The current exhibit on Bruce Springsteen highlighted his connection to his hometown of Freehold. His story was told with pictures of his childhood, guitars, memoribila from tours and quotes from his songs. A short but excellent movie from the archives showed how he was influenced by growing up here and was the inspiration for many of his lyrics. Well done but I wanted more. $15...