We don't seem to hear too much about candlepin bowling lately. The television show that was on for over 30 years was discontinued quite a long time ago, as well as the Candlepins for Cash show that ...

Depending on where you live, you may have different images that come to mind when someone says, "Let's go bowling!" For most Americans it's Big Lebowski-style bowling (officially known as ten-pin) ...

Dear Mr. Know-It-All, I'm a big candlepin bowling fan. I learned at Fairway in Natick. My question is this: Why hasn't candlepin bowling become popular in other parts of the country? M.M., Natick ...

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 ...

Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's Saturday morning newsletter, The Weekender. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. Ask a group of New Englanders if they’d ...