Tis with great sadness that I report
The creator of pink plastic lawn flamingo, Donald Featherstone, has passed, at age 79 .
Donald "Don" Featherstone was an American artist who is most widely known for his 1957 creation of the Plastic Pink Flamingo while working for Union Products.
Featherstone resided in Fitchburg, Massachusetts,where he kept 57 plastic flamingos on his front lawn. Featherstone and his wife Nancy dressed alike for over 35 years.
In 1996, Featherstone was awarded the 1996 Ig Nobel Art Prize for his creation of the Pink Flamingo.
In the off chance there is one person on DU who has never seen tis iconic lawn ornament:
little old lady southern gardens will never be the same.
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I have a small cheap knock off. pretty faded from the sun. here is is last winter in the fog -
