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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 ...

ELLSWORTH, Maine — Pins are crashing. Bowling balls are rolling. Funkytown is playing on the stereo. It's a typical Saturday afternoon in November at "D'Amanda's," a candlepin bowling alley and arcade ...

The candlepin lanes are open to members only. Worcester was once home to over a dozen candlepin alleys. Candlepin bowling was invented in 1880 in Worcester. WORCESTER ― After the Museum of Worcester ...