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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 ...
In a back room at the Bowling Bowl, Matt Laffley thrusts a callused hand into a bucket of old candlepin bowling balls and plucks one out for inspection. The ball, small enough to fit in his palm, is ...
WORCESTER — According to the most recent figures, there are 331,002,651 people living in the United States. Susan Mara Bregman is one of about 331,000,651 who have never rolled a strike in candlepin ...
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: ...
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 ...
The Worcester Historical Museum is opening an exhibit detailing the history of a sport that originated in Massachusetts’ second-largest city — candlepin bowling. The exhibit is the result of a ...
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