The only cheese-maker maker actually in Cheddar, Somerset is the Cheddar Gorge Cheese Company, founded in 2003 (extant as of 2011.) They make their cheddar using unpasteurised milk from local cows. The cheese is aged in rounds wrapped in linen, to allow it to breathe as it ages for up to a year.
The definition of a hooker is a slang term for a prostitute or someone who exchanges sex for money.
The father of Connecticut was Thomas Hooker, who had been driven from his native land by the persecuting Laud. He had arrived at Boston, in 1632, in the same ship which bore the other noted divine, Joseph Cotton. Cotton became the Puritan pastor at Boston, and Hooker at the adjoining village of Newtown, now Cambridge.