Features
Springsteen 101
About 300 professors from as far away as Australia converged on the Jersey shore Sept. 24-27 for “Glory Days: A Bruce Springsteen Symposium.”
The scholarly exploration included topics other than Springsteen – such as psychology, movies, culture, gender and the criminal justice system – but it also included the profs visiting, several times, the
The symposium began with a walking tour of Springsteen’s old stomping grounds including his boyhood home in Freehold.
No word on if they hung out in dusty arcades, banging on those pleasure machines.
Virginia Tech and Penn State-Altoona organized the symposium.