Michelle Rich held out a casket-shaped wine holder in front of a visitor. “Some wine?” Rich offered jokingly. A good sense of humor is a necessity in an industry that deals with death, Rich said. Rich ...

From a showroom in a squat, brick building in Havre de Grace, with red and white balloons bobbing outside, Bob Rynes sells merchandise no one wants to buy – or even look at. No one wanders into the ...