In this second meeting of our new Circle Squared Conversations in the Town Square in Williamsburg at the foot of the oldest academic building in the United States, we continue our nine-month, coast-to-coast contemplative journey across America in place and time. This month’s reading is Henry Thoreau’s Walden, through which we shall seek a broader American meaning by triangulating Thoreau’s two years at the pond with the seven years of Innermost House in the woods and a century of the Virginia House in the Tidewater.