Over the next few years, Soule continued to struggle with the same problems—declining health, the aching cold of winter, failing heating systems, and battles with the VA that never seemed to resolve anything. Her feelings of isolation intensified. After the libertarians stepped up the pressure on the town budget, she said, her road was no longer certain to be plowed, especially during late-winter storms, when the annual winter maintenance budget ran out. “They would literally stop plowing,” she said.
