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 ...

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: ...

Bowling isn’t exactly bowling in Maine. Maine is one of the New England states where candlepin bowling is played. It’s different from the 10-pin bowling we’re more familiar with – and more difficult.

The opening of American Flatbread on Saturday marks the return of a public candlepin center to the city where the sport was invented. PHOTO COURTESY OF AMERICAN FLATBREAD After a five-year hiatus, ...

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 ...

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 ...