Des Moines and Polk County Flag on the Prairie

Barbara Beving Long Henning's family has lived in Polk County since the 1850s. Henning earned her undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She then embarked on a career in historic preservation. She has completed more than 150 nominations to the National Register of Historic Places and dozens of historical studies for properties in Iowa, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Nebraska and Illinois. Henning owns her own consulting business, Rivercrest Associates, Inc., and now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico Patrice K. Beam received her master's degree in history from Iowa State University in Ames in 1988. She has spent much of her career in arts management as the assistant director of the Davenport Museum of Art and the Director/Curator of the Octagon Center for the Arts in Ames. Currently a public historian and an adjunct professor of history at Upper Iowa University, Des Moines Center, Beam also authors a weekly column for the Des Moines RegisterBeving Long Henning, Barbara is the author of 'Des Moines and Polk County Flag on the Prairie' with ISBN 9781892724342 and ISBN 1892724340.