With a few exceptions, you can only find candlepin bowling alleys in New England and Canada’s Maritime provinces. Here's a look at the history of the sport's unique regional rise and why it hasn ...

Candlepin’s smaller pins and balls (which also lack finger holes) make it much more difficult than traditional tenpin bowling. Plus, even when you do manage to knock pins over, they’re not ...

When you live in New England and you hear the word ‘bowling,’ there’s usually been no debate about what that means. Around here, bowling is traditionally assumed to mean candlepin, whereas ...

Saturday marks National Bowling Day, meaning there’s no better time to look back on one of New England’s favorite sports. “To us in New England, we just say bowling. Bowling is candlepin ...

Though candlepin bowling used to be a New England institution, the last alley closed in Worcester in 2020. "Candlepin is such a great family sport, friends. We want leagues to come back.

To get a taste of what good old-fashioned candlepin bowling is like, look no further than the Bowladrome in Wakefield, Mass. Operated since 1952 by the same family, this 20-lane house was a ...

He found candlepin bowling balls, each about 4.5 inches across weighing no more than 2 pounds and 7 ounces. He found newspapers from the 1990s. "We'll need new shoes," he said.

The first recorded mention of candlepin bowling in The Boston Globe came on March 8, 1889, when a five-man Boston team traveled to face a Worcester squad and defeated them, 1973-1951.

From its heydey in the 1950s, when candlepin bowling was offered in as many as 5,000 bowling alleys in the U.S., often alongside 10-pin and duckpin bowling, it has contracted to a niche that isn ...

ELLSWORTH, Maine — Pins are crashing. Bowling balls are rolling. Funkytown is playing on the stereo. It's a typical Saturday afternoon in November at "D'Amanda's," a candlepin bowling alley and ...