When 24 teams from the Northeast and Canada come to Boutwell’s Bowling Center in Concord this week for an international ...

Candlepin bowling was founded in 1880 by Justin White, a bowling alley owner in Worcester. The game took off due to its accessibility; the lighter balls allowed for adults and children of all ages ...

Present-day candlepin bowling balls are a maximum of 4.5 inches in diameter, weighing two pounds, seven ounces—much smaller than typical tenpin bowling balls, which come in at 8.5 inches in ...

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.

Robert Parrella is a local candlepin bowling ball manufacturer who partnered with the museum on the exhibit. He noted that the sport originated around the same time as several other types of bowling: ...

The pins and bowling balls are smaller in candlepin compared to 10-pin bowling. In addition, you get three rolls in candlepin as opposed to two in 10-pin.

Not far away, Wilson Bowling and Sporting has been a fixture on Shrewsbury Street since 1975 and will mark 50 years this coming February. "The sport was born and bred in Worcester and there used ...

Unlike 10-pin bowling, with its large, hefty balls, candlepin balls are much smaller, easier to handle, weighing just two pounds and with no finger holes. “It’s a great family activity ...

In fact, within 10 years, demand for the uniquely New England version of bowling known as candlepin—the game uses smaller balls without finger holes and thinner pins that are not cleared between ...

Perhaps it’s because candlepin is more difficult – an officially sanctioned perfect score of 300 has never been recorded in candlepin – even though you get three balls per frame instead of two.

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.