Memory

Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival

Laura, QLD

Australia

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1 January 2009

8 October 2010

Location

Laura, QLD

Australia

See map: Google Maps

8 October 2010

Landscapes of memory: Tjapukai Dance Theatre and Laura Festival

Shared memories of places form the threads that people everywhere use to weave their lives and histories together.

The small cemetery at Kingsborough. Only a few graves are marked, and most of those are children. Photograph by Jan Wegner

Three white-flowering frangipani trees and a few scraps of ceramic are all that’s left of these house sites in the tin and wolfram mining town of Koorboora. Photograph by Jan Wegner

Mungana, c1909. Collection of the Cairns Historical Society

Collection of the Cairns Historical Society

Thornborough Cemetery. Photograph by Jan Wegner

Steps to the hotel, Queen of the North township, Palmer. Photograph by Jan Wegner

The corrugated iron tank on the right of this timber-framed humpy has been adapted to a room, with doors and windows cut out.

Stumps and corrugated iron tanks are common remains. These are surrounded by custard apple trees, remnants of the garden, and two noxious weeds which plague abandoned mining towns: Chinee Apple (Zizyphus mauritiana) and Rubber Vine (Cryptostegia grandiflora). Photograph by Jan Wegner

Eclipse Tower, one of the spectacular limestone bluffs in the Mungana town area. There is a lime quarry below the Queensland bottle tree on the bluff. Photograph by Jan Wegner

Memory

Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival

Location

Landscapes of memory: Tjapukai Dance Theatre and Laura Festival

The small cemetery at Kingsborough

Mining town of Koorboora

Mungana, c1909

Thornborough Cemetery

Steps to the hotel, Queen of the North township, Palmer

Timber-framed humpy, Mungana

Stumps and corrugated iron tanks, Mungana

Eclipse Tower, Mungana