Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection open for research.

Use Restrictions

No physical characteristics affect use of this material.

Preferred Citation

Middleburg Life Press Release Collection (M 0113), Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, VA.

HISTORICAL SKETCH

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.

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.

Adjunct Descriptive Data

Bibliography

Middleburg Life. 1983. Middleburg, Va: The Pink Sheet, Inc
Moon, Vicky. 2001. The Middleburg Mystique: a Peek Inside the Gates of Middleburg, Virginia. Sterling, Va: Capital Books.
Moon, Vicky. Author Website. http://www.vickymoon.com (accessed on 22 October 2015).
Baratko, Trevor. 7 December 2015. Loudoun Times. "Middleburg Life sold to local winery owner David Greenhill" http://www.loudountimes.com/news/article/middleburg_life_sold_to_wineryowner_david_greenhill432 (accessed on 7 December 2015).
Ancestry Library edition, www.ancestrylibrary.com (accessed on 22 December 2015).
Swardson, Ann. 29 November 1991, The Washington Post, "Investors Acquire VA. Newspapers; Owner of Charlottesville Observer Buys the Sun" https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive (accessed 22 December 2015).

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