LEOMINSTER – The city is certainly proud of one of its claims to fame, the pink flamingo lawn ornament, and has 40 flamingo crosswalk paintings downtown to prove it. The wading bird will be c… ...

The premiere of Judith Lindstedt’s documentary “Featherstone’s Flamingo: Pink and Proud” at the Fitchburg Historical Society in Oct. 9: FITCHBURG – One Christmas, Nancy Featherstone, 63 ...

Pink is the New Art. By the 1980s, the pink flamingo had made the ultimate giant leap for mankind: it had, like Andy Warhol’s Campbell's Soup cans, become art. In 1987, ...

Featherstone created the flamingo in 1957, privately dubbing it the phoenicopteris ruber plasticus.He based the lawn ornament on a photo he had seen in National Geographic. “They have been ...

If you've got a plastic pink flamingo on your lawn, give it a pat on the back. The man who designed the lawn art, Donald Featherstone, has died. He was 79. His wife, Nancy, tells The Associated ...