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 ...
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: ...