As a kid growing up in northeast Houston, Roscoe Bluitt could hop over his backyard fence and turn a piece of Texas history into his personal playground.
He and his friends took their BB guns and hunted critters that scampered among the headstones of a long-abandoned cemetery, which had been a part of the neighborhood landscape for as long as anyone could remember.
Bluitt, who still lives in the neighborhood, hadn’t given much thought to the cemetery in the decades since — until he noticed construction crews mowing down the thickets of trees that had stood near the land for decades…