Snowy Green

See, Kristen, we do have some snow. I took this about 3 hours ago. It's the Setauket Green, where the famous Battle of Setauket took place in 1777. That's the Presbyterian Church.

"The British controlled Long Island throughout the war after defeating Gen. George Washington in Brooklyn in August, 1776, and Setauket became a hotspot of Patriot guerrilla warfare. The Redcoats turned it into a garrison town by seizing the Presbyterian Church and making it a fort. Local families' loyalties were split between the rebel and Tory causes for most of the war.The Battle of Setauket occurred Aug. 22, 1777, when 500 Patriot troops, led by Col. Abraham Parsons, came ashore from Fairfield, Conn. In a four-hour skirmish, they unsuccessfully tried to force the British out of Setauket, retreating across the Sound when word came that English ships were about to close off their escape route." (From Newsday article)