WABASH, INDIANA -- <br />
Flowers and treats await the Indiana Landmarks Board of Directors in the old ball room at the Eagles Theater in downtown Wabash, Ind., on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. After about a decade of disrepair, the Honeywell Foundation reopened the 1906 Vaudeville theater in 2010. Now showing new movies in the theater, the foundation is in the process of remodeling all four stories of building, including the ball room on the top floor. <br />
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Wabash, which currently has about 10,500 residents, is one of many small American towns trying to make a transition from an industrial past to a knowledge-based and creative economy.<br />
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CREDIT: Alyssa Schukar for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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