A tiny Upstate New York community struggles for generations to maintain a traditional hotel as the center piece of its downtown. The process has more "downs" than "ups". Dave Thornton has been teacher, journalist, actor and musician. But in the tiny Upstate New York community that became his home, he became the historian. The result of his years of studying the community has resulted in 18 (mostly) slender volumes offered on Amazon.com as "Tales of the Old Cambridge District".