Synopsis
“The cadence of Rominger’s narrative style is soundly evocative of the world she brings to life in The Rangity Tango Kids. Growing up on a California farm riding horses and motorcycles, Rominger figured out where her heart was. The rich story of how to be a great family, to overcome challenges together, and to win in the end is one you won’t want to miss.”—ROBERT REDFORD“From the ground it looks like a falcon flies in circles. It actually rises flying over the same territory to a new, higher level. Rominger’s life and charming book are like this. She was born to a traditional, religious, farm family with the kind of old-fashioned values and principles politicians rant about and rarely practice. Lorraine’s story melds the best of true conservatism, neither Right nor Left, with a huge human heart. I loved this book.”—PETER COYOTEThe Rangity Tango Kids is the story of a fifth-generation, German Catholic farm family in 1950s and 1960s California, narrated by the eldest of 17 grandchildren. Born into a loving, hard-working, highly competitive family, and united by a strong faith, every day was an adventure growing up on a bucolic American farm, a way of life that is rapidly disappearing. The land provided her, her siblings and cousins with a sense of place, an upbringing steeped in rituals and traditions that was in stark contrast with the values and preoccupations of the outside world.When the Rangity Tango Kids’ coming-of-age rebellion ran wild, they were often tangled up in the family’s strict morals and values. Regardless of the situation or conflict, the kids were surrounded by a swarm of loving relatives who put their arms around them and stuck together, no matter what.
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From the Author
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.
About the Author
Lorraine Rominger was born in Yolo County and raised on the family farm just outside of the small agricultural town of Winters, California. Following a 25-year career in music, television and film, which included working for the rock star Prince for 10 years, and as the Executive Director of the San Francisco Film and Video Commission under Mayor Jordan, she currently is the Deputy Director of the Goldman Environmental Prize based in San Francisco where she lives. Growing up on a fifth-generation farm in a loving and supportive German, Catholic family laid the foundation for Lorraine's love of the land and her longing to return to the small town of Winters, and the farm she call home. In 2001, the new grammar school in town was dedicated to her mother and named Shirley Rominger Intermediate School, an honor her family will always treasure. In 2015, Lorraine purchased the home in Winters that her mother's parents built in 1948, where she spent years as a child with her grandparents and where she plan to retire. When she was six years old, Lorraine wrote on the wall of her grandparent's garage with purple crayon that said, Lorraine Rominger first grade Union School. After nearly 60 years, the writing on the garage is still clearly visible. For more information, including videos/photos visit lorrainerominger.com
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