[email protected] wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Lane Whispell Hines > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5RB.2ACE/1363.4.2 > > Message Board Post: > > Sharon, > > I have to ask - what can you tell me about Shandaken? My research > confirms that I have both Lane and Whispell ancestors who settled > there "way back when". Eventually both families migrated to > northeastern Pennsylvania (Clinton Twp, Wyoming Co, PA) > > I've seen that name Shandaken for quite a few years, but I've got > no concept of what the area looks like, either back in the late > 1700's or today. Is it rural or is it city? When I think of > Woodstock, I think of the "hippie" music festival held there years > ago and if I remember correctly I believe that was in a farmer's pastures. > Rural, definitely rural, at least Shandaken, which I drive through on the way to my sister's house. Woodstock might be more built up, being closer to Kingston, but there aren't any 4 lane highways there, either. You shouldn't confuse Woodstock (village and town) in Ulster Co. with the site of the Woodstock Festival in the Town of Bethel in Sullivan Co., though.