This article discusses a multidisciplinary performance event called Peripheral City: Rediscovering the Gowanus Canal. In the article, the author, DeWitt Godfrey, discusses how the event emphasized environmental issues surrounding the Gowanus Canal. The author is a sculptor and assistant professor at Colgate University. The article asks the audience to overlook the fact that the canal is dirty and to envision an ecological beauty that could result from it. It discusses the presentation that a woman by the name of Maureen Brennan gave regarding this performance. She said how Peripheral city offered a rebirth of the Gowanus Canal and called on all sorts of groups, including Army Corps of Engineers, Hackensack Riverkeeper, etc. The author’s intended audience is all of us, who should help clean the Gowanus Canal a truly aesthetic place.
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James, Again, a proper citation is needed. Where was this published? Reread your last sentence. Is the audience “all of us” and is our job to clean the canal? Be more specific.