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Sam Manno

Sam Manno

Host and Producer

Sam Manno, that’s me! The host and producer of the Children's Corner.

It has been over thirty years since I moved to Montana with every intention of returning to Chicago when I finished graduate school, but like one of Darwin’s Finches, I found a niche.

The niche children’s programming here at Montana Public Radio, first as a guest celebrating reptiles and amphibians with Marcia, to becoming Annie’s “Girl Friday”. Over the past 15 years, with Annie in the lead, I became a co-conspirator in bringing MTPR listeners great (okay better than average) programming for kids of all ages.

As I look back on all those years, the most remarkable thing to date is that I have not lost the keys to the building!

When not in Master control, I attempt to keep a herd of dairy goats out of my neighbor’s yard with limited success, learning along the way that “a well-behaved goat is a sick goat” and “if the wind can get through a fence, so can a goat”.

I proclaim to be an artist, and pastoralist, finding peace as part of a herd of dairy goats with no intention of moving back to Chicago but maybe the rolling hills of Southern Wisconsin.

Seedling the goat coming to get her morning bottle. No iPhones were hurt in the making of this video.