The Pride of Wabash Avenue is an incredible story that takes place during Indiana’s Golden Age from 1880 into the 1920s that covers Terre Haute’s and the larger Wabash Valley’s amazing contributions to show business and early Hollywood. Subjects like Paul Dresser’s influential Tin Pan Alley hit “On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away”. Broadway star Alice Fischer. Vaudeville and silent film stars like Buster Keaton and Valeska Suratt. Nickelodeons and movie palaces. Coal miner turned prolific screenwriter Grover Jones. The beginnings of radio and its stars. And the beginnings of many organizations connected to these Terre Haute figures such as the AFL, the Actors Fund, Twelfth Night Club, the White Rats, Actors Equity, the Episcopal Actors Guild, the Hays Code and Central Casting which was founded exactly 100 years ago by a man from my hometown area of Terre Haute, Indiana named Will H. Hays.