Rebel Rebel

A Gen-X story about kayaking, the Whiskey Rebellion, and David Bowie

Sherrie Flick
Heated
Published in
14 min readSep 4, 2020

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A kayak on top of a car.
Photos: Sherrie Flick

Embark on a guided float trip that is wacky and irreverent while paying tribute to the 1790s Whiskey Rebellion. We’ll tell the story of this historically significant rebellion in an entirely new way — by hearkening the voice of David Bowie. Why Bowie? We believe that a spirit of rebellion — revolution even — threaded the

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Sherrie Flick
Heated
Writer for

Sherrie Flick’s nonfiction appears in The Wall Street Journal, Ploughshares, Creative Nonfiction, and Pittsburgh Magazine.