The members of Brattleboro's senior bowling league talk a humble game. But the personal bowling balls and shoes they show up to bowl with tell a different story.

Robert Rigby’s bowling ball says “radical” on it in big yellow letters. He’s 77, lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts, and bowls an average of about 200.

“ I come north of the border every time to bowl,” he said.

Rigby is president of the weekly league, which meets every Thursday morning.

“The first rule of this league is you're here to socialize and have fun,” he said. “Bowling is the excuse and the reason you’re here.”

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If it is really an excuse to get together, it’s one that members have embraced wholeheartedly. While most Brattleboro Bowl leagues stop in the summer, the senior league play

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