The bus carrying a museum memorializing World War II prisoners held in the United States is an old schoolbus painted military green and rusted across the back. An aging big-screen television is held in place with what looks to be salvage wood wedging it into a corner and a bungee cord to keep it from toppling. The stories the screen tells are of boys. Boys brought to this country as prisoners. Boys who earned art supplies, formed musical bands, staged plays and - considering their forced separation from all that they loved - lived well. But the only ones left who remember the German-prisoner …

The story of Sir Charles Henry “Harry” Frankland and fisherman's daughter Agnes Surriage is an international tale of an older rich man and a poor teenage girl told in poetry, novel, memoir and biography.  Harry Frankland, for whom the street on the east side of Hopkinton is named, was born in Bengal, India on May 10, 1716. He  inherited a fortune when his father died in Bengal in 1738. He was also offered the collectorship of the port of Boston and moved there.   In 1741, the 25-year-old Harry met Agnes Surriage, a beautiful and witty 16-year-old fisherman’s daughter who scrubbed the floors …