A bit off topic but I watched a channel (Girl Gone London) by an American woman living in the UK. She mentioned spare-time activities she hadn't encountered in the States and mentioned that bowling or bowls (lawn bowls not 10 pin bowling) wasn't a thing in the States. I wondered did they play lawn bowls in pre-revolutionary America because there's that park called the Bowling Green in New York that has featured in some of Mrs Q's videos. Using Google I found that there's a lawn bowls club in Central Park though it's older people who tend to play it.
Yes, that IS what the Bowling Green was! It was very popular in Colonial NYC. Also, Bocce Ball was brought by the wave of Italian immigration in the late 19th Century.
Thanks for replying, Mrs Q. There's a city in Kentucky called Bowling Green - I remember the Eversley Brothers sang a song about it (yes I am old enough to remember).
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A bit off topic but I watched a channel (Girl Gone London) by an American woman living in the UK. She mentioned spare-time activities she hadn't encountered in the States and mentioned that bowling or bowls (lawn bowls not 10 pin bowling) wasn't a thing in the States. I wondered did they play lawn bowls in pre-revolutionary America because there's that park called the Bowling Green in New York that has featured in some of Mrs Q's videos. Using Google I found that there's a lawn bowls club in Central Park though it's older people who tend to play it.
Can anyone enlighten me whether lawn bowls were played on the Bowling Green, New York back in the day?
Yes, that IS what the Bowling Green was! It was very popular in Colonial NYC.
Also, Bocce Ball was brought by the wave of Italian immigration in the late 19th Century.
Thanks for replying, Mrs Q. There's a city in Kentucky called Bowling Green - I remember the Eversley Brothers sang a song about it (yes I am old enough to remember).