[Magdalen] Creator of Cultural Icon RIP

[Jim Guthrie]

"Don Featherstone did not invent Phoenicopterus ruber: Nature took care of that 
eons ago. But what Mr. Featherstone did nearly six decades ago — in the process 
indelibly altering the landscape of midcentury America — was to cast the 
creature in plastic and attach slender, rodlike legs for planting it in the 
ground."

Read it all:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/business/don-featherstone-inventor-of-the-pink-flamingo-in-plastic-dies-at-79.html

(Not to be confused with the great 1972 movie of the same name)

Cheers,
Jim

"The enemy isn’t liberalism;
the enemy isn’t conservatism.
The enemy, is baloney." - Lars Erik Nelson