For over 100 years, travelers have checked into US motel rooms and found the Gideon Bible

America Objects: For over 100 years, travelers have checked into US motel rooms and found the Gideon Bible

The Gideon Bible has become a symbol of America's roadside culture and Protestant tradition. Paul McCartney noted its presence in American hotel rooms in The Beatles' song “Rocky Raccoon,”, a sight unfamiliar in England. The tradition began in 1908 when…

For over 100 years, travelers have checked into US motel rooms and found the Gideon Bible

SALISBURY, Maryland (AP) — “Rocky Raccoon checked into his room, only to find Gideon’s Bible.” Paul McCartney explained those famous lines in the song by The Beatles, saying these Bibles “were in every hotel in America.” He’d never seen something like that in England. For more than a century, countless have found it in the […]