HARVARD – When Jim Shook bought the Harvard Lanes in January, the longtime candlepin bowling business at 204 Ayer Road faced an uncertain future. So did candlepin bowling. Now, Harvard Lanes is open ...

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 ...

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 ...

Candlepin bowling has made a triumphant return to its native city. Five years after Worcester’s last candlepin alley, Colonial Bowling Center closed its doors, the sport has been resurrected inside ...

Go candlepin bowling — in the city that invented this favorite pastime — and grab a pizza at a new American Flatbread location at The Cove in Worcester, overlooking Polar Park in the Canal District ...

NORTHBOROUGH ― In 1953 Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to scale Mount Everest, and Russian dictator Joseph Stalin died. It was also ...

WORCESTER ― "Three sports were invented right here: basketball, volleyball and candlepin bowling," said Vanessa Bumpus, exhibit coordinator at the Worcester Historical Museum. And while volleyball and ...

‘Strikes, Spares & Deadwood,’ a new exhibition on display through March, is a compelling reminder that candlepin, which originated in Worcester, was once king ERVING — On a recent weekday afternoon, ...