The Mayflower Stopped Here First... Essays on Cape Cod's Importance in the Plimoth Colony: A 2020 Symposium is an important collection of essays written for the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower's landing. Essays include information on the lesser-known facts about early Cape history, including the first economic exchanges in the Plimoth Colony, the mapping of the early Cape Cod towns, interactions between the Native Peoples and the earliest Colonists, how the main center of the Colony could have been Barnstable instead of Plymouth, the real reasons for the colonial settlement of Cape Cod and other fascinating stories.