Finding Irene and Harry

Silver City, Nevada - Prolific poet Irene Bruce and her husband, Harry Bruce, a Ragtime Dixieland pianist, lived in Silver City for many years. Some of Irene's highly regarded poetry can be found in her three published books of poetry, as well as in Desert Wood, Shaun Griffin's anthology of Nevada poetry, and in Cheryl Glotfelty's Literary Nevada: Writings from the Silver State. Watch for the first of three articles related to Irene and Harry in the Mason Valley News column "Silver City Neighbors" next week. The first column will focus on Irene, the second on Harry, and the third will provide details about the fascinating current use of the Silver City house Irene sold in 1971. The links below are to photos from the Gus Bundy Collection at the University of Nevada Reno Special Collections. http://unrspecoll.pastperfectonline.com/

Follow this link http://unrspecoll.pastperfectonline.com/photo/FB977DAB-53A4-4925-851D-136062283900 to see
Harry Bruce entertaining New Year's Eve visitors, including poet Irene Bruce and writer Walter Van Tilburg Clark.


The seven pictured in the foreground of this photo (link to photo below), including Irene Bruce (center, on stool), Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Duncan Emrich, Roger Butterfield, Charles Clegg, and Lucius Beebe, were lights of the literary and art world in Northern Nevada in the 1940s-1960s who lived on or frequently visited the Comstock during that period. They were brought together for this photo taken at the Delta Saloon in Virginia City for an article on Author's Day, Sept 17, 1949 or 1950. Maruss Emrich is also in the photo.
Follow this link http://unrspecoll.pastperfectonline.com/photo/913F2A06-DA9F-4D45-9364-006402100030 to see Irene Bruce and other "lights of the literary world."

The last photo here, from the collection of Sandra McCormick, is a hint about who bought Irene Bruce's Silver City house in 1971.