"The 2011 Mount Vernon ornament commemorates the story of Washington's prayer in the snow at Valley Forge on Christmas Day, 1777. The ornament is two sided with a painting of the Mount Vernon Estate in a scene and the other showing General Washington with one knee down praying next to his horse. The 2011 Prayer at Valley Forge Christmas Ornament is handsomely decorated by a 24k gold-finished brass frame with enameled colors on porcelain. Here is an excerpt of the story: The fullest account of Potts' testimony is in the "Diary and Remembrances" of Rev. Nathaniel Randolph Snowden, a Presbyterian minister and a Princeton graduate. "I was riding with him (Mr. Potts) near Valley Forge, where the army lay during the war of the Revolution. Mr. Potts was a Senator in our state and a Whig. I told him I was agreeably surprised to find him a friend to his country as the Quakers were mostly Tories. He said, "It was so and I was a rank Tory once, for I never believed that America could proceed against Great Britain whose fleets and armies covered the land and ocean. But something very extraordinary converted me to the good faith.""