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WORCESTER – The Museum of Worcester is celebrating 150 years, and one of their featured exhibits showcases the city's storied history of candlepin bowling. Candlepin bowling was first played in ...

PITTSFIELD — In the bowling world, candlepin is what you might call an underdog. It's smaller than tenpin bowling and receives less national exposure, candlepin aficionados will tell you. But in ...

HAVERHILL — It's 9:30 on a recent Sunday morning. Most people are either in church or in bed, depending on whether they worship the Holy Spirit or imbibed too many spirits the night before. But the ...

Depending on where you live, you may have different images that come to mind when someone says, "Let's go bowling!" For most Americans it's Big Lebowski-style bowling (officially known as ten-pin) ...

At the corner of Springfield Pike and Worthington Avenue sits the Wyoming Civic Center. The building is an ideal space for wedding receptions and various other social events. But a walk downstairs to ...

I was not an athletic child—I’m not an athletic adult—and during my New England childhood I indulged mostly in the grade-school sports imposed upon me in gym class: bombardment (what we called ...

HARVARD – When Jim Shook bought the Harvard Lanes in January, the longtime candlepin bowling business at 204 Ayer Road faced an uncertain future. So did candlepin bowling. Now, Harvard Lanes is open ...

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Go bowling almost anywhere in the world, from California to Copenhagen, and it’s going to look pretty much the same. Weighty, nearly nine-inch balls being hurled down a lane toward 10 hefty, ...