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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Candlepin bowling originated in Wooster, Massachusetts, in the 1880s. Justin White is credited with inventing the sport, and John J. Monsey helped regulate the game and spread it across the state.

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 ...

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 ...

Colonial Bowling Center in Westbrook, ME closed after 77 years of business in 2016 and Saco’s Vacationland Bowling and Recreation Center for 34 years in 2017. Although once incredibly popular in the ...

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 arcade in Ellsworth, Maine.