For five years, Ottawa’s William Baldwin bent over his writing desk and inscribed, for posterity, the name of every Canadian who died in uniform during the First World War.

That’s the magic waiting for you at Glendy’s Uptown Mall in Terre Haute, Indiana – a vintage wonderland where yesterday’s treasures become tomorrow’s conversation pieces.

Retirement brings a peculiar kind of freedom that most people don’t experience until they actually get there. Suddenly, the ...