Dawidziak at Tully documentary premiere in St. Marys

Two years after the publication of their biography about writer Jim Tully, PD and former BJ television critic Mark Dawidziak and co-author Paul Bauer will be in St. Marys, Ohio, Tulley’s birthplace, for tonight's premiere of filmmaker Mark Wade Stone's documentary based on their book, followed by a concert by guitarist Eric Taylor. 

Paul Bauer, Mark Dawidziak filmed
on the rails that Tully knew well

The film -- “Road Kid to Writer -- The Tracks of Jim Tully” -- features Eric's music about Tully.

The Auglaize County Historical Society will host “An Evening with Tully and Taylor” at 7 p.m. at the St. Marys Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, 1309 East Spring Street, St. Marys.

Born to James Dennis and Bridget Marie Lawler Tully, an Irish immigrant ditch-digger and his wife, Tully was sent to a Cincinnati orphanage after his mother died in 1892. What education he acquired came in the hobo camps, boxcars, railroad yards and public libraries across the country.

In Kent,  he was a chain-maker, professional boxer and tree surgeon. He also began to write, mostly poetry published in the local newspapers. He moved to Hollywood in 1912, where he became one of the first reporters to cover Hollywood.

Tully married Florence May Bushnell in 1910 in Kent. They had two children, T. Alton Tully, born in Kent, and daughter Trilby Jean Tully, born in California. 

Tully married Margaret Rider Myers in 1925 and Myrtle Zwetow in 1933.