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It’s the end-all, be-all cure in a little white jar, and it heals everything from babies’ chafed bottoms to sores on a dog’s back.
It is ENDIT, and two pharmacists in Shallotte developed the formula.
Many Shallotte natives may remember William Douglas Roycroft — or Doug, as many called him — as the pharmacist and owner of Shallotte Rexall Drugs and Ocean Isle Pharmacy. Others may remember him for his service to Brunswick Hospital, the Brunswick County Board of Health or the ABC Board.

“Infernal Machines” were introduced into warfare by Confederate forces during the Civil War.

A program on this innovation, which we now call torpedoes, will be presented at Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson State Historic Site from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 10.

The free program, “Mine Games: Torpedo Warfare in the Cape Fear,” is the final of 2nd Saturdays summer programs organized by the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources at historic sites and museums statewide.

Learn how different ships named North Carolina had an important role from the Civil War to World War II aboard the Battleship North Carolina this weekend.

“Battleship 101” consists of interactive family fun from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 10.

Battleship 101 visitors engage with ship volunteers stationed throughout the ship as they create dialogue on specific subjects relative to daily shipboard life including gunnery, radar, sickbay, galley and engineering areas.

Author Daniel Morton will be at Pelican Bookstore in Sunset Beach from 1 to 4 p.m. Monday, Aug. 5, to sign copies of his latest book, “Eyes of the Ocean.”

The book focuses on Jim Fender, who has it all: a house on the beach, a beautiful wife, a loving daughter and a business deal that promises to make him extremely wealthy. He’s on top of the world — but that’s all about to change.

LITTLE RIVER, S.C. — Marlen Mapes wore patriotic colors when she visited the Veterans Welcome Home and Resource Center last week.

She also had in hand $1,776 to give to the nonprofit center, whose staff of dedicated volunteers provide assistance to veterans in the region when they often can’t get help anywhere else.

Singer/songwriter Jim Quick is the front man for Jim Quick & Coastline, a band rooted in the Cape Fear region and along the Grand Strand.

Coastline, though not a true beach band, performs more R&B and shag songs.

Quick, inspired by his childhood years growing up “between the swamplands and sand hills of southeastern North Carolina,” has been touring the Southeast for more than 15 years, playing nearly 300 shows a year. He has released more than 11 albums, including his latest, “Down South.”

If asked, anyone who lives or visits Brunswick County knows and would say emphatically that the best cooks and bakers in the world live here. Now they are being recognized.

Each month the editorial staff of Our State magazine highlights a regional cookbook, and this month’s feature is the Old Bridge Preservation Society’s Old Bridge Cookbook.

Too Much Sylvia has the desire and ability to please and play something everyone will enjoy.

The Carolinas-based band’s fun, contagious personalities touch all. Whether at a low-key dinner setting or an energetic ‘80s-style party, the band easily adapts.

Band members’ talents will be showcased at this week’s Summer Concert Series at 6:30 p.m. Friday, July 26, at the Museum of Coastal Carolina in Ocean Isle Beach.

A banana tree grows in Brunswick County.

And sometimes it even yields a few delicious bananas, says tree owner Emmett Grissett — right in his own backyard in the Cedar Grove community.

“I started off with a little thing right there,” said Grissett, standing beside the flourishing tropical tree towering over his head where the latest baby bananas are emerging.

It wasn’t so long ago that plant “looked like nothin’ — just stalks,” Grissett said. “I cut all the leaves off to just a stump.”