MEMPHIS Even when Memphis Peabody hotel duckmaster Anthony Petrina cleans the duck palace, he wears his distinct red sport coat with its black collar, gold buttons and gold embroidery. "Alfred didn't ...

Why does The Peabody hotel have ducks? Or, as Chico Marx said to Groucho in "The Cocoanuts" (1929): "Why a duck?" The routine, rife with typically convoluted Marxian wordplay, is motivated by Chico's ...

One of the most beloved traditions in Memphis takes place at the Peabody hotel. Every day the Peabody ducks march at 11 o'clock to the hotel lobby where they hang out in the hotel's fountain until 5 o ...

LITTLE ROCK — Lloyd Withrow serves as the Duckmaster at The Peabody Hotel, but his job goes far beyond leading the ducks to the fountain. Withrow, who has held the position since 2004, not only takes ...

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, April 9 (Reuters Life!) - Lloyd Withrow, 48, is Duck Master at the Peabody Hotel in Little Rock, and is in charge of the hotel's flock of ducks. Each morning he dons a ...

My son Michael and daughter-in-law Linda and I started our journey to New Orleans by flying from Pittsburgh to Memphis and spending the night at the Peabody Hotel before leaving for our boat trip down ...

What do you want to know about Memphis? Know Your 901 is a new initiative launched by the know-it-alls at The Commercial Appeal that seeks to answer your questions about the Bluff City and the Greater ...