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Plastic Pink Flamingos from Bascom Hill
As sleepy students made their way up Bascom Hill on the first day of classes in 1979, they were greeted by an unbelievable sight: 1,008 pink flamingos covered the hill in front of the dean's office. At 8 a.m. on September 4, 1979, members of the now legendary Pail & Shovel Party had begun planting the birds. By 2 p.m. that day, however, the ephemeral wonder had disappeared from the hill, the birds taken one-by-one by students who displayed them for years afterward in their dorm rooms, apartments and elsewhere around campus.
See one of the pink flamingos from this event on Bascom Hill in our Museum's collections.
:: Posted September 7, 2005
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