John Lee Dumas on his family's dock on Kennebunk Pond in Lyman, Maine. Dumas' podcast, Entrepreneurs on Fire, started in 2012 and has been downloaded millions of times. Photo by Cy Cyr The Fire Still Burns at Home John Lee Dumas has recorded thousands of daily business podcast interviews, built a global audience and created a life that carried him far beyond York County. But on a warm August morning in Lyman, Maine, he was barefoot on the dock at his parents’ home on Kennebu

Peter McPheeters, of Biddeford Pool, rows his boat around Wood Island Lighthouse during sunrise on February 22, 2025. Photo by Cy Cyr/ BrickTides.com The flagpole snapped in the dark. The wind came hard through Biddeford Pool on Monday — snow moving sideways, drifts building against the harbor-facing buildings, the kind of February storm that reminds you who owns the coastline. By Tuesday morning the blizzard had moved offshore. The sky was hard blue. The Pool lay exposed at

Randy Forcier, left and Chris Bedard, right, at their office above Social House Kitchen in Saco, Maine. The CMG Home Loans office on Beach Street is quiet in the way a busy place gets when it’s between waves. A couple chairs are pushed in like someone tried to be tidy before the next appointment. A conference room sits ready—four walls, a table, a few pens that don’t belong to anyone in particular. Downstairs, there’s coffee and movement at Social House Kitchen, the kind of p

Jimmy Haight, left and George Matelich, right, met over coffee and quickly built a community of like-minded Mainers in technology roles. And, starting it all, was an email that ended up in a spam folder. A Soft Morning in Kennebunkport The meteorologists had promised drama. Strong winds were coming, they said. Heavy rain too. But that morning in Kennebunkport, nothing had arrived yet. The air was still. The harbor barely moved. It was one of those Maine mornings where the fo