The following information is from material developed for Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana by Tom Davis.

"My wife is my most helpful critic, she brings to me a clearer eye, a more poetic vision." This was the influence Libby Steele had upon her husband, T.C. Steele, the most prominent member of the Hoosier Group, both at the turn of the last century and today. Much of his continuing fame today may rest upon his having chosen Brown County, now long viewed as the Indiana mecca for any art which glorifies nature and the rustic, as the place to which to retire and spend his last twenty years at his studio in the hills, "the House of the Singing Winds," now a state historical site and a secondary tourist attracti...