Portly, slow and trashy are only complimentary to a spider crab. Spider crabs, also called portly crabs, need little introduction.

Edgartown

Thomas S. and Wendy N. Soldini, trustees of the Wendy Soldini Trust, purchased 25 Bold Meadow Road in Edgartown from Jon M. and Janet L. Pose for $1,000,000 on August 20.

David E. Bloom and Colleen Cooper purchased 6 Forest Circle in Edgartown from George D. and Jean M. Bakes for $580,000 on August 21.

Tisbury

Jonathan Edward Pangia purchased 116 Stonegate Lane in Tisbury from Steven and Robin Mussell for $955,000 on August 23.

The sixth annual Tisbury Firefighters Association Car Show roars into town this Sunday, Sept. 2. Hot rods, antiques, custom jobs and classics, plus motorcycles, too, will strut their stuff at the Tisbury wharf on Beach Road in Vineyard Haven. Most of the vehicles that will be on display are owned and operated by Islanders.

Trophies will be awarded by popular vote. There will be a 50/50 Raffle, and burgers and hotdogs starting at 4 p.m. and roasting until sunset.

Enjoy the crisp August weather outdoors or stay indoors and visit one of the many art galleries on the Island? Thanks to Vineyard Gardens’ Gallery in the Garden events, held each Friday evening in August, the decision became a simple one: do both.

Friday, August 24: Edgartown harbor sparkles in the early morning sunshine. The Chappaquiddick ferries draw glittering lines of wake across the channel. Temperature reaches the mid-80s. Hotter in downtown Oak Bluffs, where pedestrians walk carrying ice cream cones. The smell of French fries and fresh-made popcorn is adrift at Farland Square. Late summer evening on the waterfront. Clouds increase late. Moving port and starboard lights criss cross the harbor.

Capt. David Dutra, 67, of the 60-foot Eastern Rig dragger Richard & Arnold, fished for fluke for most of this summer out of Menemsha. His 88-year-old fishing boat is an unmistakable old black wooden dragger that smells and looks like something out of another era. It is a handsome boat, the last of its kind, not unlike the captain. Richard & Arnold, out of Provincetown, is but one of a very few working wooden fishing boats left on the East Coast. They make neither the boat, nor the captain like they used to.

Schedule of Film Festival Events

Thursday, Sept. 6

Opening Night Reception and Film Premiere

2012 | Music, Opening Night | 120 min.

screens with ... Searching for Sugar Man | Malik Bendjelloul 2010

Saltwater Restaurant 5:30 p.m.

Searching for Sugar Man

Malik Bendjelloul 2010 | Doc. Music | 85 min.

MV Film Center 8 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 7

Las Acacias

Pablo Giorgelli 2011 | Drama | 82 min.

Six artists will be featured in a new show at the Louisa Gould Gallery in Vineyard Haven, all of whom graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The show began on August 30 and continues through Sept. 10. There will be an opening reception on Saturday, Sept. 1, from 5 to 7 p.m.

The artists are Jeanne Staples and Liz Taft (from the Vineyard), Sarah Son-Theroux, Deena Gu-Laties and Debra Hope Colligan from Cape Cod, and Saskia Eubanks of Boston.

The gallery is located at 54 Main street in Vineyard Haven.

Country and folk singer Jonathan Edwards first made a name for himself in 1971 with his protest song Sunshine, released on his debut album. Now, after a long musical career, Mr. Edwards will perform songs from his latest release, My Love Will Keep, when he appears at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs on Thursday, Sept. 6.

This weekend the artisans of Martha’s Vineyard celebrate Labor Day by displaying not just the fruits of their labors but also how they labor, too.