All the companies in this book have similarly symbiotic relationships with the communities in which they’ve grown up, and the vitality of those connections is part of their mojo. The companies’ owners and employees have a strong sense of who they are, and where they belong, and how they’re making a difference to their neighbors, friends, and others they touch. In some mysterious way, all that contributes to buzz around the business, the passion people feel for what they’re doing.
