"It's not very happy right now," the 24-year-old environmentalist admits as he drives north from Beijing to inspect the poetically named waterway.
The early settlers of the area named the waterway "Gowanes Creek" after Gouwane, sachem of the local Lenape tribe called the Canarsee, who lived and farmed on the shorelines.
Similarly Canal Street is nearby, named for the waterways that Harvey's gondolas once traveled.
These branches, the Carson River route and the Truckee River route, are named for the waterways that guide each branch up the Sierra Nevada mountains.
He pulled a card and read with a completely straight face, "Louisiana waterway named after the inventor of the sewing machine".
He sought $800,000 for the Neosho National Fish Hatchery in Missouri and $1.5 million for a waterway named in honor of former Senator J. Bennett Johnston, a Louisiana Democrat.
BUTTERMILK CHANNEL Ryan Angulo, who was the chef de cuisine at Stanton Social, will be in the kitchen at this American bistro, almost in the shadow of the Gowanus Expressway, and named for the waterway that runs between Brooklyn and Governor's Island.
The Eisenhower Johnson Memorial Tunnel was known as the Straight Creek Tunnel during construction, named for the waterway that runs along the western approach to the tunnel.
East of the airport in the town of Massena, NY 37 begins to parallel the north bank of the Raquette River as it intersects NY 37C near a hamlet named for the waterway.
Sobek is the name of the adventure travel company I founded quite a few years ago, but it was christened after the crocodile god of the Nile, not a waterway named for a mini-me mountain.
