Millicent Accardi

Award-winning Portuguese-American author Millicent Borges Accardi believes that her becoming a poet was probably inevitable since she is named after Millicent Gifford Rogers, the ‘Muse of Poetry’ whom the Fairhaven library is dedicated to. Story has it that Accardi’s mother would go to the library as a child and sit under the large stained glass window depicting Millicent Rogers as the Muse of Poetry and ponder that she would call her child Millicent.