MISQUAH — The Independence Day committee met Thursday at the Legion and finalized plans for the Fourth of July celebration, which will, the committee is pleased to report, closely resemble the celebration held last year, and the year before, and for as long as anyone can reliably remember.

The parade steps off at 10 a.m. down Main Street, the route unchanged on the grounds that Main Street is, in the relevant stretch, the only street. Lineup forms at 9:30 by the elevator. Entries remain welcome — “floats, tractors, the fire truck, and the one unicycle, as always,” committee chair Pete Hagen said.

The day continues with the Lions’ chicken feed at noon, kids’ races at the school at two, the Mud Lake Association’s pie table “for as long as the pie lasts,” and fireworks over Big Pelican at dusk, fired from the same pontoon, by the same two men, who have done it since 2003 and decline to train a replacement.

The committee reminds residents that the geese have not been consulted about the fireworks and are expected to have opinions. Donations toward the fireworks fund may be left at the bank, at Tim’s, or “with anybody on the committee you happen to see, which will be all of us.”