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 ...

It’s 6 o’clock at night, and inside East Boston’s Central Park Lanes, the late-summer air is heavy and humid. Pulling a handkerchief from his pocket, Nunzio “Nunny” Celona wipes his forehead as he ...

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: ...

Hidden at the end of a narrow alleyway in the quaint town of Shelburne Falls – most recently featured in The Holdovers starring Paul Giamatti – lies an unusual business that’s barely changed since its ...

The candlepin lanes are open to members only. Worcester was once home to over a dozen candlepin alleys. Candlepin bowling was invented in 1880 in Worcester. WORCESTER ― After the Museum of Worcester ...

NORTHBOROUGH ― In 1953 Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to scale Mount Everest, and Russian dictator Joseph Stalin died. It was also ...

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 ...

Go candlepin bowling — in the city that invented this favorite pastime — and grab a pizza at a new American Flatbread location at The Cove in Worcester, overlooking Polar Park in the Canal District ...

Freshly-oiled and restored lanes are some of the upgrades that can be found at Harvard Lanes, which reopened on June 4 under a new name and management. PHOTO COURTESY OF HARVARD LANES The former 204 ...

Candlepin pins are set up on a metal plate at the end of the lane. Fallen pins, known as deadwood, can be used to knock down pins on future throws, a rule that's unique to this version of the sport.

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 ...