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In 2025, Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Kathy Talley joined Southlake Historical Society President Connie Cooley for a look at the the society’s Town Hall exhibit, “Modern Southlake: How We Got Here.”
In 2023, the society’s presented “Lonesome Dove,” one of the Humanities Texas’s traveling exhibits that featured framed and matted sepia tone photographs taken by famed photographer and co-producer of the popular 1989 miniseries by the same name.
Southlake Mayor John Huffman and Tamara McMillan of the Southlake Historical Society talk about the society’s 2022 Ghosts of Southlake’s Past tour held in Hood Cemetery (located in the Coventry Manor subdivision, Peytonville at Coventry Lane).
Along with the historical society, this 2019 “History of Carroll Football” program was sponsored by a number of Southlake businesses and residents. This video was filmed and posted to Youtube.com by Bermuda Schwartz. Speakers in the program include the longtime “voice of the Dragons,” CSHS teacher Sara McCombs; CISD Superintendent Jack Johnson; former Dragon coaches John Lowrey, Bob Ledbetter and Todd Dodge; longtime Dragon supporter Phil Barber and Carroll’s first quarterback Eddie Cheatham. 
In 2016, a panel discussion was held in conjunction with the historical society’s Town Hall exhibit, “How Aviation Changed Southlake.” Participants included Southlake Mayor Laura Hill, Tarrant County Commissioner Gary Fickes, longtime resident and real estate agent Lou Hillman, former Southlake mayor John Terrell, former Southlake Economic Director Greg Last and Frank Bliss, president of Cooper and Stebbins, developers of Southlake Town Square.
In 2009, local historian, Mike Patterson, presented a society program, “Southlake and the Civil War: True Stories of Courage, Sacrifice and Family.”
In 2007, Bill Marquis of Denton County was hired by the city of Southlake to reconstruct a log house using remnants of three log structures found in Southlake that date to the mid-1800s. The log house is located in Bicentennial Park at the White Chapel Blvd. entrance under the water tower. (Unfortunately, the audio portion of this homemade video, taken on a very windy day, is difficult to understand!) This video was filmed shortly after the completion of that project. 
In 2024, Connie Cooley discussed with Southlake Council member Frances Scharli the historical society’s Town Hall exhibit, Making a Splash: How Lake Grapevine put Southlake on the map.”
In 2022, Mayor John Huffman and Connie Cooley discuss the society’s annual Town Hall exhibit, “Quanah Parker: One man, two worlds,” a traveling exhibit sponsored by the Texas Historical Commission.
In 2021, the city of Southlake filmed this video, narrated by SHS secretary, Claire Johnson, as a welcome video to the 
Bob Jones Nature Center and the permanent Bob and Almeady Chisum Jones exhibit located in the BJNC Visitor Center.
In July 2019, CBS Texas filmed a Centennial Celebration video about the 1919 Carroll School on it’s 100th birthday. On display in  Southlake Town Hall was the historical society’s exhibit, “1919 Carroll School: Where it all began,” (part of it is shown in this video) which remains on permanent display in the Carroll ISD Administration Bldg., 2400 N. Carroll Ave.
Bob Jones was born into slavery in 1850 in Arkansas, the son of a white father, Leazer, and his enslaved mother, Elizabeth. In 2013, one of Bob’s grandsons, Fort Worth native Dr. Bobby Jones, sat down with NBC5’s Mark Hayes to talk about his grandfather and the family’s history.
In 2010, Connie Cooley sat down for an interview for “Books in Review with Shari Barnes,” to discuss the society’s first book, Arcadia Images of America: Southlake, published in 2009.
Also as part of the city’s 50th birthday celebration, citizens were asked to participate. Carroll Senior High School journalism students interviewed longtime residents and gathered photographs to create a video which was later shown at the city’s formal celebration ceremony in September 2006 in Southlake Town Square.
In 2006, the city of Southlake celebrated the city’s 50th birthday. As part of that celebration, SPIN (Southlake Program for the Involvement of Neighborhoods) sponsored a History of Southlake forum. With the help of the Southlake Historical Society, a group of longtime Southlake residents gathered in city council chambers in Town Hall to share their recollections of early Southlake.