This Sunday, Dallas County Conservation is offering a program discussing a group of people from the two World Wars known as “conscientious objectors.”

Conservation Intern Sean Riley will lead the program, which will focus on pacifists from the area, such as the Brethren and Quaker communities. Forest Park Museum Curator Pete Malmberg offers a preview of what Riley will cover. “There’s a fascinating and kind of grim history of that in Dallas County, going back to World War I, where some people did not want to support the World War I effort. So some of those people were actually attacked. Their houses were painted yellow, somebody tried to kidnap one’s little daughter, I mean crazy things! So he’s going to talk about that whole history of conscientious objectors in World War I and World War II in Dallas County.”

The event will be held this Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at the Forest Park Museum. There is no cost to attend, and no preregistration is required.