The Rangity Tango Kids: The story of a fifth-generation farm family in rural California
Hardcover
Biographies GeneralCatholicism
ISBN13: 9781778836855
Publisher: Bookside Press
Published: Aug 8 2025
Pages: 266
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Rangity Tango Kids is my first memoir about my family and growing up on a fifth-generation farm in rural California. Writing this book was truly a labor of love, as my inspiration to write the book came from losing my from a brain tumor when she was 70. I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s, a time and a place that is rapidly disappearing. I wanted to save my family's traditions and unique lifestyle to pass on to my nieces and nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews, as they didn't grow up on the farm working in the fields alongside Dad and Grandpa like I did, from the time I was 10 years old. I was the oldest of 17 grandkids, and we all grew up together playing and working on the farm. One of my Dad's workers said we ran around the farm like a bunch of orangutans and he nicknamed us the Rangity Tango Kids. We were surrounded by a large loving and supportive family that stuck together and took care of each other no matter what. We hunted the eggs, fed the chickens, and milked the cow, butchered pigs, drove trucks, tractors, and harvesters. We hunted and fished and ate everything we killed, except the varmints that ate Dad's crops. We went to school in a one-room school house in the corner of Grandpa's field, 25 kids in grades one through eight with one teacher. We learned to water-ski in the canal being pulled behind the pickup. Most of all, I wanted to thank my mother and father and my grandparents for a wonderful life.
1 different editions
Also available
The Rangity Tango Kids: The story of a fifth-generation farm family in rural California
Rominger, Lorraine
Paperback
Also from
Rominger, Lorraine
The Rangity Tango Kids: The story of a fifth-generation farm family in rural California
Rominger, Lorraine
Paperback
Also in
Biographies General
Bluesland: Portraits of Thirteen Major American Blues Masters
Toby Byron (ED.)
Pete Welding (ED.)
Hardcover
Karl Popper - The Formative Years, 1902 1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna
Hacohen, Malachi Haim
Hardcover
The Children of Athena: Greek Intellectuals in the Age of Rome: 150 Bc0-400 AD
Freeman, Charles
Hardcover
Make It a Double: From Wretched to Wondrous: Tales of One Woman's Lifelong Discovery of Whisky
Sackier, Shelley
Hardcover
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Isaacson, Walter
Hardcover
An Enemy Such as This: Larry Casuse and the Fight for Native Liberation in One Family on Two Continents Over Three Centuries
Correia, David
Hardcover
Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s
Howe, Sean
Hardcover
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
Cooper, Christian
Hardcover
The Secret Life of the Savoy: Glamour and Intrigue at the World's Most Famous Hotel
Williams, Olivia
Paperback
The Badger: The Life of Bernard Hinault and the Legacy of French Cycling
Fotheringham, William
Paperback
The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich
Kinney, David
Wittman, Robert K.
Paperback
Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Womens Political Culture, 1830-1900
Sklar, Kathryn Kish
Paperback
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
Purnell, Sonia
Hardcover
Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Paperback
Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors' Wives
Cordingly, David
Paperback
The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy: A Family Memoir of Scandal and Greed in the Meat Industry
Cherington, Gretchen
Paperback
Gift of Power: The Life and Teachings of a Lakota Medicine Man
Lame Deer, Chief Archie Fire
Erdoes, Richard
Paperback
My Own Devices: True Stories from the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love
Dessa Wander
Hardcover
Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Giuffre, Virginia Roberts
Hardcover
How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay: Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself
Lawson, Jenny
Hardcover
Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor
Kuehn, Christine
Hardcover
Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground
Dohrn, Zayd Ayers
Hardcover
Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast
Colloff, Pamela
Hardcover
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Fedarko, Kevin
Paperback
