- The pastor of the church Bruce attended as a child, Fox Point Lutheran Church, was William Downey, the Army chaplain who gave the invocation for the Enola Gay atomic bomb mission.
- While living in Spring Green, Wisconsin, Joseph Stalin's granddaughter's summer clothes were stored in Bruce's closet.
- Bruce single-handedly cruised his American Marine Chantyman from Portland, out the Columbia Bar, up the Washington coast, into the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Friday Harbor, WA.
- In 1992, Bruce opened for Utah Phillips at a concert in Idyllwild, CA.
- To be born, Bruce's parents paddled a canoe across Buck Lake to the Morris home there on the Leech Lake Indian reservation where the Jeep was parked so as to get to the hospital in Bemidji. On the way home it was a rowboat, but one oar broke so his dad had to paddle with one oar.
- Bruce's first job offer was as curator for the Brooks Stevens Auto Museum in Mequon, Wisconsin.
- While attending the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Bruce was tear gassed by Madison Police while wearing his Air Force ROTC uniform on the way home from class.
- Bruce's daughter Jessica was born at home in Pennington, Minnesota. The population went from 10 to 11. Bruce filled out the birth certificate form and spelled her name wrong, with one "S". Ten years later, Bruce went to the Bemidji Courthouse to get a birth certificate, and the name was spelled with two "S". The clerk of the court said, "Oh, I remember that, it was spelled wrong so I corrected it.".
- When Bruce's daughter Amanda was born thirty years later, the same doctor who delivered Bruce also delivered Amanda.
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