A while back, my buddy Mark Bramhill — yes that Mark Bramhill — was in town for work. The episode of BirdNote he was working on is now live:
Twice every day, a rapt audience gathers at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee to see six local celebrities: five ducks and the hotel’s head Duckmaster, Kenon Walker, who leads them in “The Duck March.” With John Philip Sousa music playing, the ducks march across a red carpet through the hotel’s lobby to a fountain. The ducks swim about the fountain until the afternoon, when the Duckmaster marches them back to their palace on the roof. People travel from all over to see this surreal local tradition.
I have lived in Memphis my whole life and even I learned a lot listening to this.