ABSTRACT
This chapter expresses that the old township of Goldsworthy is a place of memories and becoming that reveals the emotional continuity to home in the face of loss. Goldsworthy has a presence in spite of its officially non-existent status that gestures to an ongoing social process of meaning-making. Memories and embodied and virtual engagements are acts of place-making that allow Goldsworthy's former residents to perform and commemorate identities and histories that might otherwise be forgotten. The chapter explores an act of place-making in encouraging individual and collective memories. It contains responses of former Goldsworthy residents to a survey in which they were invited to participate. Goldsworthy is a case of memories without furniture with its potent remembered past and imagined futures. Rituals and spatial practices are integral to Goldsworthy as a site of becoming, that is, its 'sense of social aliveness'.
