New England is rife with unique traditions and entertainment— from munching on Fluffernutter sandwiches to belting out “Sweet Caroline” to sporting duck boots, rain or shine. But while many of our ...

Candlepin bowling: Ball maximum size is 4.5 inches in diameter. Minimum weight is 2 pounds, 4 ounces; maximum weight is 2 pounds, 7 ounces. Players can roll up to three times in one frame. Also, ...

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 ...

I was not an athletic child—I’m not an athletic adult—and during my New England childhood I indulged mostly in the grade-school sports imposed upon me in gym class: bombardment (what we called ...

Go bowling almost anywhere in the world, from California to Copenhagen, and it’s going to look pretty much the same. Weighty, nearly nine-inch balls being hurled down a lane toward 10 hefty, ...

It’s a Saturday morning in November, and Elizabeth Marquis and Ashley Bedard have brought their mothers to Mason’s Bowling Alley in Leominster for three strings of candlepin bowling. Just like every ...