John Guider has spent his life behind a camera and on the water. Now, he has combined both passions into a new PBS Nashville documentary that puts a spotlight on the future of the Duck River — a critical water source for one of Tennessee’s fastest-growing regions.
“Nature is basically a church for me. It’s the world that God made and I want to celebrate it,” Guider said.
The documentary, titled Down the Duck, follows Guider’s month-long canoe journey down nearly the entire length of the Duck River. He begins below Old Stone Fort State Park near Manchester and ends where the Duck meets the Tennessee River in Humphreys County. “I’m in kind of a stealth mode. And so, when I go down the banks, I can see animals interacting with each other and I’m pretty much invisible to them,” Guider said…