So that tells you what the culture is of candlepin bowling. There is no room for that.” The lack of national popularity and the absence of big business does have some drawbacks, though ...

Ask a group of New Englanders if they’d like to go bowling and ... manufacturer, new candlepin machines must be built by custom request. “But that’s like a mom-and-pop shop, or the guy ...

In fact, within 10 years, demand for the uniquely New England version of bowling known as candlepin—the game uses ... where mom-and-pop bakeries and butcher shops were a staple.

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 ...

ELLSWORTH, Maine — Autumn Mowery was seven or eight years old when she started going to the candlepin bowling alley in Ellsworth, about a 20-minute drive from where she grew up. "This was really ...

As candlepin bowling undergoes a bit of a renaissance in Central Massachusetts, a Millis bowling alley was the site of a new world record game bowled by an area woman. Ryan Family Amusements was ...

A picture by local photographer George Cocaine of a candlepin bowling alley in the mid-1900s hangs in the Worcester Historical Museum's exhibit. New England has a lot of unique, quirky customs: ...

Worcester was once home to over a dozen candlepin alleys. Candlepin bowling was invented in 1880 in Worcester. WORCESTER ― After the Museum of Worcester in December unveiled an exhibit ...

WORCESTER — Candlepin bowling has always been right up Worcester's alley. For one thing, according to many accounts the sport was invented in Worcester in 1880 by Justin "Pop" White, the owner ...