Lawn Bowling and the Artifec in the New England Colonies

The game and the artifec fit into a continuing history of struggle, a futile struggle, to exert social control and conformity in the new england colonies. And yet it was going on at katherine, nanny naylor's house. Probably that was because it could be tolerated in private settings among people who were seen to have low respectability or low reputation. So this constant rearguard struggle goes all the way back to the beginning of plymouth which tried to suppress what they considered vices,. violations of church discipline and law and morality.