Late 1940s
Nearing the end of the decade in the summer of 1948, Helen had been working on a design idea for the new photoelectric power generator that she had planned to create for the new Sanctuary. During the process, she found that she would need to recruit Buckminster Fuller into the equation in order to help build it. She needed a semi-open and informal opportunity to get close to him. That moment was thankfully granted at the brief socially experimental Black Mountain University in North Carolina where faculty and students could freely intermingle with each other. There, Helen decided to lead a Fellowship program for a semester in which she shared an office with Fuller, allowing her a chance to gain his insights into geodesic dome structures.
Early 1950s
At the arrival of the 1950s, it finally became time for Helen to start pursuing the excavation and initial establishment of the Underground Sanctuary. In 1956 she created the Great South American Mining Corporation. Not only would it help her dig the amount of space that she needed to be able to fit the entirety of the Sanctuary Network's current residents underground as well as creating extra room for further expansions, but it was a great investment as she could still make profits off it long afterward as it worked on other projects around the continent.
Early 1960's
In 1964 Helen had made her way over to Coober Pedy in the Australian Outback and had decided to open a provisions store there. The small isolate town was perfect for not only making money as she would be a primary supplier for all of the work that goes on there, but it was also a great location that gave her insight into the culture of underground living and inspiration at incorporating natural structures into the architecture.
Author's note: These are little tidbits that I had originally stuck onto the end and beginning of larger chapters. I moved them here despite a tiny word count, as I prefer the full chapters to just be about their own themes without these 'distractions' tagging on.
