Patrice K. Beam

Authors Barbara Beving Long Henning and Patrice K. Beam offer a glimpse into the area's early beginnings, when pioneers and immigrants clamored to Polk County, Iowa, enticed by the fertile and productive prairies, water power, excellent railroads and roadways.
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Patrice K. Beam received her masters' 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 entitled "Iowa Collects," for the Des Moines Register.An active preservationist, Beam is restoring a 100-year-old house, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.