The Gardenia Guild is a series of journals kept by Mary Gray. Journal One was written during the three months that she attended the Vaudner Academy Finishing School & Debutante Program in Charleston, South Carolina and is part journal, part notebook and part scrapbook. Mary writes about the experience of living at Vaudner, meeting a special guy and discovering that the spirit world really does exist. The journal features mementos, notes from etiquette classes, photographs, letters, recipes and more.