This article is reprinted by permission from NextAvenue.org. You might see them haunting a lawn near you: the Zombie Flamingo. They are the undead progeny of the first pair of plastic pink ...

Admit it. When someone says “lawn ornament,” you think of pink plastic flamingos. Don’t be ashamed. The iconic fowl have been flocking to our yards for more than 50 years. We’ve all seen ...

Donald Featherstone modeled the lawn ornament after images he saw in National Geographic. "Things I did made people happy, and that's what life is all about," he said in 2006.

Creator of Pink Flamingo Lawn Ornament Dies at 79 Donald Featherstone of Leominster passed away the day before Pink Flamingo Day. By Madeline Bilis · 6/23/2015, 10:50 a.m.

Despite the plastic pink flamingo’s resonance with so many things 1957, the ornament was almost instantly ridiculed as kitsch, which was a particularly damning designation given its habitat: the ...

BOSTON - The original pink flamingo lawn ornament, the symbol of kitsch whose obituary was nearly written after its central Massachusetts manufacturer went out of business, is rising phoenix-like from ...

Donald Featherstone, a trained sculptor with a classical art background, created the flamingo in 1957 for a plastics company, modeling it after a bird he saw in National Geographic.

Featherstone, a sculptor, was hired by Leominster, Mass.-based Union Products to make three-dimensional lawn ornaments. He created the first pink flamingo lawn ornament, his second assignment, in ...

Pink plastic lawn flamingo creator dies 8 photos. BOSTON - Don Featherstone was a classically trained painter, a talented sculptor and artist, who became famous for creating the pink plastic lawn ...

According to various sites, including Wikipedia, the New York Times, and a Mental Floss article, the lawn flamingo was ...

Destrehan resident Laurie Jones wants her neighbors to know that she does not have questionable taste when it comes to lawn decor. Yes, she did have 30 plastic pink flamingos on the front lawn of ...

The creator of the pink plastic lawn flamingo, the ultimate symbol of American lawn kitsch, has died. Donald Featherstone was 79. Featherstone’s wife, Nancy, told The Associated Press on Tuesday ...