It’s a Saturday morning in November, and Elizabeth Marquis and Ashley Bedard have brought their mothers to Mason’s Bowling Alley in Leominster for three strings of candlepin bowling. Just like every ...

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 ...

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 ...

New England is rife with unique traditions and entertainment— from munching on Fluffernutter sandwiches to belting out “Sweet Caroline” to sporting duck boots, rain or shine. But while many of our ...

Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's Saturday morning newsletter, The Weekender. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. Ask a group of New Englanders if they’d ...

When 24 teams from the Northeast and Canada come to Boutwell’s Bowling Center in Concord this week for an international competition, they’ll be playing at the biggest candlepin bowling arena in the ...

Watch your step! The rough old wood floor at Candlepin Bowling Lanes has just been replaced with a slick, state-of-the-art surface. Other than that, it’s still the Eisenhower Era in the basement of ...

WORCESTER — According to the most recent figures, there are 331,002,651 people living in the United States. Susan Mara Bregman is one of about 331,000,651 who have never rolled a strike in candlepin ...

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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, ...

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) ...