The Father Who Kept the First Drawing

In 2014, a journalist interviewing retired schoolteacher Margaret Ellison in Savannah, Georgia, noticed something peculiar on her refrigerator. Pinned beneath a magnet was a crayon drawing — a wobbly stick figure with orange hair and the word "MOM" scrawled in backward letters. The paper had yellowed. The tape had been replaced dozens of times. "My son Drew made that when he was four," Margaret said.…