Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire introduces 4 new board members Portsmouth Herald PORTSMOUTH - Coming off a nod from New York Times best-selling author Jodi Picoult, the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire has announced its new board leadership that will take the helm as the nonprofit lays out its calendar of events for 2021. Commissioned by Frommers Travel Guide in its “Best Places 2021: Great Authors on Our America,” Picoult advised readers to add the Trail to their travel plans: “Sobering and eye-opening, the Black Heritage Trail forces us to question those we have traditionally considered heroes, and to elevate those who have been marginalized instead. It squarely centers Black life in early America, at a time when we as Americans need to be rewriting our history to do so.”