Abstract
In 1994 archaeologists working in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, recovered what turned out to be the oldest lawn bowling ball in the New World. This research note is the result of the unexpected public interest in this artifact. The lawn ball belonged to the household of Katherine Nanny Naylor, a wealthy resident of 17th-century Boston. The lawn ball became a starting point for a small research project on the history of bowling in the New World and Puritan attitudes towards recreation in general and bowling in particular. This note opens a discusion of the tension between the need to relax and recreate oneself and Puritan ideas towards appropriate activity and work.
DOI
10.22191/neha/vol27/iss1/10
Recommended Citation
Lewis, Ann-Eliza
(1998)
"A Recreation to Great Persons: Bowling in Colonial Boston,"
Northeast Historical Archaeology:
Vol.
27
27, Article 10.
https://doi.org/10.22191/neha/vol27/iss1/10
Available at:
https://orb.binghamton.edu/neha/vol27/iss1/10
