Independence Day is one of those few holidays that will always be celebrated on the precise day of its origin —— July 4th. No changes to Monday for the convenience of a long weekend. Most years, however, Independence Day provides a long holiday weekend — either three or four days — to begin Summer. But, by my unscientific calculations, every six years or so (depending on leap years) Independence Day falls on a Wednesday as it did yesterday. And when Independence Day falls on a Wednesday, people are not sure what to do with themselves.... We’re just not used to a holiday in the middle of the week. Take off the extra days before? Or after? or not at all. In the midst of indecision and confusion,there is a general sense of the beginning of Summer.