Sue Glover’s play The Straw Chair tells the story of 17-year-old Isabel and her minister husband who, in the early years of the 18th century, arrive on the remote island of Hirta (St Kilda) to spread ...

Later, in 1968, Straw joined the faculty at Western Michigan University, where he taught in the Geology Department and directed the department during two terms: as acting chair from 1971-1975 and as ...