For years in Colorado Springs, Scott Boyer had been learning little by little about a tattoo artist in local lore who went by Colorado Nick. His real name was Leonard Newell Wisner, Boyer learned. And in learning this he learned the man was buried at Evergreen Cemetery.
Boyer came to an unmarked grave.
“Here was someone who had played a meaningful role in the city’s cultural history,” he said, “and there was nothing marking it.”…