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 ...

Man Who Created The Pink Plastic Lawn Flamingo Dies : The Two-Way Donald Featherstone modeled the lawn ornament after images he saw in National Geographic. "Things I did made people happy, and ...

Donald Featherstone of Leominster, the inventor of the plastic pink flamingo lawn ornament, passed away the day before Pink Flamingo Day.

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 ...

A product of its time All three of the ornament’s basic elements – plastic material, pink color and the flamingo design – have a particular relevance to the late 1950s.

The creator of the pink plastic lawn flamingo, the ultimate symbol of American lawn kitsch, has died. Donald Featherstone was 79.

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 ...

Perhaps not shockingly, the pink flamingo lawn ornament was invented in the same decade that polyester pants, pink washing machines, vinyl wallpaper, and Naugahyde lounge chairs were cool.

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 ...

Donald Featherstone, creator of the pink flamingo lawn ornament, has died. NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Tom Herzing, co-author of The Original Pink Flamingos: Splendor on the Grass.

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

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.