Members of Parma City Council, which passed the resolution unanimously at Monday night’s meeting, watched as DeGeeter -- ...

The pink flamingo has become extinct - the plastic pink flamingo, that is. The real birds, the Phoenicopteridae ruber, are alive and well and breeding happily in the warmer climes. But Union Products ...

American lawns are dying. This decline has nothing to do with widespread drought, greenhouse gasses, pollution, or our penchant for chemical fertilizers and weed killers. Lawns are simply falling out ...

The fundraiser for the Foundation and Alumni Association fundraiser is more significant this year amid cuts to federal ...

Like the smiley face, the peace sign and other ubiquitous symbols, the pink plastic lawn flamingo actually had an inventor. But Don Featherstone never imagined the life his creation would lead.

Florida’s oceans slip between turquoise and emerald, its sunsets streak yellow and orange, and its politics shift from blue to purple to red. But pink is Florida’s favorite color. From the cheesy, ...

Spend enough time in Florida or Baltimore’s Hampden neighborhood and eventually you’ll see a plastic pink flamingo perched on someone’s lawn, standing in its usual one-legged pose. Despite what the ...

Production of the original plastic pink flamingo, designed in 1957 by Don Featherstone, ceased in June, 2006, just shy of its 50th birthday. Its manufacturer, Union Products of Leominster, Mass., ...

BOSTON — Don Featherstone was a classically trained painter, a talented sculptor and artist who became famous for creating the pink plastic lawn flamingo — the ultimate piece of American suburban ...

BOSTON (AP) — 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 ...