Quoting J-P Stacey jp.stacey@torchbox.com:
Out of the box, Drupal sets the default front page to be the same as /node , which (again out of the box) produces a list of the last few nodes to be created and "promoted" to the front page. This is why you're seeing the story on the front page: if you added more stories, they'd probably appear there too.
Not exactly. The stories are "Promoted" to the front page because that is what the work flow is set to do. If you change the work flow for the Story content type to not promote to the front page then you won't see it. However, a Page was designed out of the box to be static a page and not promoted while a Story was designed to be promoted to the front page.
Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/