Shopping in Hanover

At Trader Jan’s Archery Pro Shop, up to 23 archers can take aim and send arrows singing through the air toward targets on 10-, 20-, and 40-yard ranges. Trader Jan's virtual ranges provide bow shooters with foam targets and 3D targets that simulate hunting deer, as well as paper targets that simulate hunting wild bullseyes.

In the pro shop, the specialists outfit customers with recurve bows, compound bows, traditional bows, and youth bows. They can also set archers up with sights, scopes, stabilizers, and supplies for building custom arrows.

Lisa Baker of Baker's Baskets and Flowers helps clients reach out to loved ones via generous baskets of seasonal fruit and beautiful flowers. Her colorful shop runneth over with aromatic Yankee Candle products, greeting cards, custom gift baskets, and potted plants, and beautiful arrangements of roses, daisies, and orchids express a range of emotions including joy, sympathy, and unbearable ennui caused by a lack of flowers.

A woman strolls into the framing shop clasping the hood ornament of a car. She doesn't know much about it, except that it was attached to the car her grandfather drove around town during his youth. Not wanting the trinket to sit in a dusty drawer any longer, she hands it over to a staff member and asks him to turn it into piece of art equipped to hang on a wall. Since The Preservation Framer's doors flung open in November 2008, its team has restored and preserved memory-laden keepsakes ranging from photographs to wedding gowns to violins. During each framing project, specialists use museum-quality materials to securely encase items within custom-cut frames, available in more than 700 colors and three fruit flavors. Exposed brick walls, hardwood floors, and a tin ceiling enclose the storefront, which doubles as an art gallery that showcases local, regional, and intergalactic artists' work at least four times a year. The Preservation Framer's downtown-area surroundings also keep clients entertained with an assortment of restaurants and boutiques.

For over 25 years, Franklin Block Opticians' two resident eye doctors have pored over eyes, expeditiously filling precise prescriptions in their onsite lab. The staff, meanwhile, curates their frame selection with a keen eye for style, featuring designs from Dolce & Gabbana, Versace, and Armani that keep vision blur-free and adept at Italian accents.

The furniture and antique experts at Jarred's Homegoods unearth a wealth of gently used bedroom furniture, dining-room digs, and jewelry to fill the store’s expansive showroom floor. Patrons can sift through cherished pieces claimed from estate sales, including furniture crafted from old barn wood or antique brass bed frames, and an array of designer jewelry rewards wrists and décolletage with sunburn-deflecting sparkle. Treasure hunters can peruse the showroom and dig up work crafted by famous designers, carpenters, and brands such as Ethan Allen, Liz Claiborne, and Givenchy.

Artisan clayworkers toil over Great Bay Pottery's ever-ready kilns crafting one-of-a-kind stoneware pottery, including sturdy floor vases, convenient serving dishes, and all manner of saucers for UFO hoaxing. Patient clients can watch as potters spin their new piece of practical decoration into existence and finish the piece to their specifications with painted and glazed designs in nautical, arboreal, or impressionistic themes, among many other options. For a small fee, the potters will inscribe any piece with a message for personalized gift giving.