Middleburg Life Press Release Collection 1991-1992

Access and use

Location of collection:
Thomas Balch Library
Thomas Balch Library
208 West Market Street
Leesburg, Virginia 20176
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Alexandra S. Gressitt
Phone: (703) 737-7195
Fax: (703) 737-7195

Summary

Extent:
.5 cubic feet
Creator:
Vicky Ann Moon, Middleburg, VA
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

The Middleburg Life Press Release Collection consists of press releases distributed in and around the Middleburg area and collected by Vicky Moon as editor of Middleburg Life between 1991 and 1992. Releases were received from businesses, schools (including Foxcroft), health care organizations, Departments of Loudoun County Government, and numerous non-profit organizations. Photographs are of various events and places in Loudoun County; individuals are identified, but events are not identified. Photographs have been removed for preservation from pages with typed identification. Pages and photographs were photocopied before photographs were removed.

Biographical / historical:

Vicky Ann Moon founded Middleburg Life, a monthly newspaper of "Hunt Country people, lifestyles and trends" in 1983. Serving as its editor, Moon cultivated a following for Middleburg Life by chronicling people, businesses, organizations and events in Middleburg, Virginia and the surrounding area. Originally owned and published by The Pink Sheet, Inc. ownership of the paper changed hands several times. Moon continued to serve as editor and along with her husband Leonard Shapiro also regularly contributed as a staff writer. In December 2015, Middleburg Life was sold by its owner at that time, Northern Virginia Media, to David Greenhill, a local winery owner and satellite communications entrepreneur. Greenhill announced shortly after the purchase that Moon would continue to serve as Editor-in-Chief of Middleburg Life.

Along with Middleburg Life, Moon has also written about Middleburg and related topics in numerous other publications, including articles in The Washington Post, Leesburg Today, and magazines such as People and Town and Country. She published numerous books about Middleburg, including The Middleburg Mystique: a Peek Inside the Gates of Middleburg, Virginia, published in 2001, and The Private Passion of Jackie Kennedy Onassis: Portrait of a Rider, published in 2004. Moon and Shapiro are residents of both Middleburg and Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Physical description:
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