u/jacky986

In short I want to know if there are any good period dramas about the Grand Ole Opry, the radio station/show that helped make country and bluegrass music the cultural phenomenon that it is today.

So I have something of a fondness for country and bluegrass music and I have been thinking what are the Westerns to watch for lovers of country and bluegrass?

Bonus for any about the Grand Ole Opry, which one can argue is the heart and soul of Country and Bluegrass music and the reason why country musical became a cultural phenomenon.

The best ones I know of so far are Brother Where art thou?, Coal Miner's Daughter, Crazy Heart, Walk the Line, A Prairie Home Companion, The Apostle, Pure Country, and Tender Mercies.

So in a previous post I made a lot of redditors pointed out that the show doing a story arc or episode about the station's supply issues was kind of a moot point since the show already made references to the various supply issues and said issues were resolved in Racing Mars.

But that made me realize something. If the station had so many problems with supplies and logistics, how come they never had a Supply/Logistics officer to handle these issues? At the very least they could have promoted someone to be the station's unofficial scrounger. Like N'Grath the unofficial "boss" of the Downbelow from season 1, or the B5 postmaster, Emmett Farquaha, who is implied to have certain connections to get the mail and packages to the station. Personally, I favor the latter, for two reasons:

1. The special effects for N'Grath were a letdown and probably one of the reasons he was quietly dropped after season 1.
2. Considering how much respect and fear Emmett commands, you know that he is someone not to be trifled with and he can get the job done.

So why didn't this happen? Did executive meddling prevent this happening? Or was this something that JMS didn't even take into consideration?

Back in the 60s and 70s the local Sheriff Ralph Lamb led the Sheriff’s Department and the Las Vegas City police in a crusade to curb the Mob’s influence in Las Vegas. And I was wondering if there were any historical fics about said crusade?

https://themobmuseum.org/notable\_names/ralph-lamb/

After watching Knives Out: WUDM, it reminded me of Father Brown and it also got me thinking if there are any other Cozy mysteries about a Catholic priest that also doubles as an investigator/sleuth?

Bonus, if there are any stories where said priest is an official investigator from the Vatican. However, their specialty is either as an Occult investigator that looks allegations of the supernatural phenomenon like hauntings, demonic possessions, necromancy, and sightings of supernatural creatures. Or an investigator of "miracles" or people that are eligible to be Saints.

And they usually get mixed up in a criminal investigation in one of two ways:

• During the course of their investigation into a miracle/saint/supernatural activity they discover that its all a cover/hoax for a crime or criminal activity. Like in Mr. Monk and the Miracle. Or in the Father Brown episodes: Ghost in the Machine and The Whistle in the Dark.
• Their investigation into a miracle/saint/supernatural activity runs concurrent with a separate investigation into a crime or criminal activity. But the criminal investigation either implicates a suspect in the Priest's investigation that they believe to be innocent or it discovers evidence that the Priest believes is essential to their own investigation and joins to gain access to said evidence.

So I often hear stories about what great homesteaders the Amish are but I haven’t found any record of them setting past the Mississippi. The closest I could find was their Northern counterparts the Hutterites settling the Canadian frontier. Is there any record of the Amish settling the American West?

So I often hear stories about what great homesteaders the Amish are but I haven’t found any record of them setting past the Mississippi. The closest I could find was their Northern counterparts the Hutterites settling the Canadian frontier. Is there any record of the Amish settling the American West?

I just don’t get the point of it or why it was supposed to be funny.

Was this a vague JMS jab at IKEA or something like San Diego?