Duck River
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Oct 7, 2026
Tom PriceHOST
All candidates promised to cultivate and improve relations with non-government entities and with other governments, the state, the county, and other municipalities.
Tom PriceHOST
Previtti offered to meet every week with County Mayor Sheila Butt, with whom he's worked for four years, and touted his and his colleagues' advocacy in the Statehouse to pass the Financial Management Act of 2018, Duck River protections, and new impact fees.
Tom PriceHOST
He also named coordination as key to finding a long-term water source for the Duck River watershed.
Tom PriceHOST
The Duck River will never ever put out more water than it does now, he said.
Tom PriceHOST
We need a coalition of the entire Middle Tennessee area to come up with a permanent water source, either the dam or a pipeline to the Tennessee or the Cumberland, and it doesn't need to be Murray County paying for it.
Tom PriceHOST
It needs to be the entire region, he said.
Gary BakerGUEST
... enjoying every aspect of the scenery.
Gary BakerGUEST
I can see for 20-something miles, two miles of Duck River frontage, um, assuming they don't kill the Duck River.
Gary BakerGUEST
They're making every effort to right now, but we're gonna fight that off.
Gary BakerGUEST
Um, but I'm loving every minute of it.
James DickinsonGUEST
My goodness gracious.
Drake ColleyHOST
You know, I think I just – one night I was over at my house over on the Duck River on the other side of town, and I think I heard – just faintly heard them.
James DickinsonGUEST
Yeah, they do a wonderful job with our band.
James DickinsonGUEST
They got big numbers this year.
Nina CardonaHOST
He set an open frame measuring one cubic foot into place and took pictures of the creatures that passed through.
Nina CardonaHOST
The only North American spot to make that very short global list was the Duck River.
Nina CardonaHOST
Blake Farmer did a story on it for WPLN back then.
Nina CardonaHOST
Lichwager told him that he photographed more than 100 species at a spot about 15 miles east of Columbia.
Nina CardonaHOST
And as we report on it, we repeatedly mention the fact that it is considered to be the most biodiverse waterway on our continent.
Nina CardonaHOST
But today, while we're in a lull between new developments on that front, I thought I'd take just a moment to refresh our understanding of just what we mean when we say it's ecologically important.
Nina CardonaHOST
According to the Duck River Conservancy, it is home to 151 species of fish and more than 50 kinds of freshwater mussels.
Nina CardonaHOST
On a mile-by-mile basis, that's comparable to the Amazon.
Shaun RainoneGUEST
So if you haven't been back to the park in at least the last three years, you're due for some changes to welcome you here.
Shaun RainoneGUEST
But new visitor center where we are today in the Duck River Exhibit Room.
Shaun RainoneGUEST
Neighboring this building is our new restaurant.
Shaun RainoneGUEST
We're three years into those and very excited to have folks learning about them.
Shaun RainoneGUEST
And today is a special day.
Shaun RainoneGUEST
This week we have you all with us as partners, and we're excited to have groups visiting this time of year.
Shaun RainoneGUEST
We get a lot of weddings on the weekends, but we love our weekday visitors where we're doing conferences and sharing a lot about conservation and sharing the Duck River and all of our access points.
Shaun RainoneGUEST
So, yeah, it's a special place and just a lot happening right now.
Elsie SelwynNARRATOR
Had an engineer then been along, they would, in all probability, have been successful, as the obstacles which afterward defeated us did not then exist.
Elsie SelwynNARRATOR
Our company had been moved onward from Murfreesboro to Shelbyville, which is a beautiful little city, situated on Duck River.
Elsie SelwynNARRATOR
We camped above the town in a delightful meadow.
Elsie SelwynNARRATOR
It was Sabbath, the 6th of April, and the earliness of the clime made the birds sing and the fields bloom with more than the brilliancy of May in our own Northern land.
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Elsie SelwynNARRATOR
Soon after we found what a slender ground of trust that was, but now we were safe in the completeness of our disguise.
Elsie SelwynNARRATOR
We met many others of our party, and trudged along, sometimes in company with them, but oftener alone.
Elsie SelwynNARRATOR
Toward evening we reached Manchester, crossed Duck River, which was at flood height, and entered the town.
Elsie SelwynNARRATOR
Here we found the population in a wild ferment, and on inquiring the cause, learned that some of the citizens had reported an approaching band of Yankee cavalry, and that they were even now visible from the public square.
Josh PetersonHOST
Interesting smell walking through the air in here.
Josh PetersonHOST
Smells like Duck River.
Josh PetersonHOST
Two receivers to the right.
Josh PetersonHOST
Trusler in motion.
Tom PriceHOST
I'm not saying micromanage them, but definitely keep a better eye on them, she said.
Tom PriceHOST
On Thursday evening, the city of Columbia honored local man Sam Adcock with the Carnegie Medal for Heroism for saving a person from drowning in the Duck River.
Tom PriceHOST
Front Porch Radio's Del Kennedy attended the city council meeting and met with Mr. Adcock and his mother, Deborah McKeown.
Del KennedyCORRESPONDENT
This is Dale Kennedy from Ports Radio.
Del KennedyCORRESPONDENT
Glad to see you.
Del KennedyCORRESPONDENT
Now, Sam, you were awarded this medal for an act of heroism in May of this year.
Del KennedyCORRESPONDENT
You rescued a drowning man at risk to your own life in the Duck River near Chickasaw Park.
Del KennedyCORRESPONDENT
Tell me what happened.