 Get your copy at Barnes & Noble, Hy-Vee, Books A Million, and Beaverdale Books, or visit iowahistoryjournal.com to subscribe today. Edna and Stanley Griffin moved to Des Moines in 1947. Stanley attended what is now Des Moines University, and Edna raised their three children at their Beaverdale home, one of the few African American families in the neighborhood at the time.