candlepin bowling: google it...its like your more familiar "10-pin" style (big balls with the 3 holes), except the pins are straight and slender, (like a candle), the balls are smaller, (like a boce ball), lanes narrower, and you get 3 bowls per frame instead of 2. MUCH harder than 10-pin. Candlepins have a mind of their own...their behavior is very unpredictable. and they don't clear the fallen pins between shots...this "wood" just sits there in the way, wherever it falls, which could be a great help, or hinderance to your next shot. My understanding is that its only common here in the northeast, (really, "boston area), so most of you have probably never heard of it or seen it. Not that I'm a big bowler by any means, but I never saw a "10-pin" alley until I was an adult...there's just none around here. its all "candlepin".
And speaking of local things...Marc, you give away too much personal info. I pretty much know right where you live. not that its a problem in this case...but who knows who else might be reading.
