But why? A podcast for curious kids is known for serious answers to silly questions sent

in by kids just like you. But did you know that but why is now a book series?

Our first book, Our Lama's Ticklish, answers questions from real kids about farm animals.

This colorfully illustrated book is perfect for kids ages 8 to 10. And our second book,

To Fish Breathe Underwater, explores the underwater world of the ocean. Learn more at

at thebykids.org slash books.

I'm Jane Lindholm and this is But Why, a podcast for curious kids from Vermont Public Radio.

If you live in the United States, you probably celebrate Thanksgiving every year. Maybe you

are on a trip to your grandparents or your friends house right now as you listen to this

podcast. The traditional main dish at Thanksgiving is a turkey. At my family Thanksgiving this

year, we're going to have a turkey that my uncle in Maine raised and butchered himself.

It was the only one that didn't get eaten by a fox. But a lot of people get their

turkeys not at the farm where it was raised but at the supermarket. That turkey may have

been frozen and shipped to the store from many thousands of miles away in a big refrigerated

truck. But back before trucks and before refrigeration, the turkeys still had to get from the farm

to the big city. So how did they do it? Well, in some cases, they walked. Today on this

special episode of the podcast, we are going to listen to a story about how turkeys used

to get from farms in Vermont to markets and dinner tables all the way in Boston a couple

hundred miles away. We got this amazing story from a guy named Peter Gilbert and it originally

aired on another show I host for Vermont Public Radio called Vermont Edition. Peter says

this annual event, the turkey drive was a pretty amazing site. Picture turkeys basically

just taking over the roadways. What we're talking about thousands in each trip, it depends

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