Brittany Howard

For my band's debut tour in 2011, we road-tripped across the country in a 15-passenger van. It was the first time I'd left Alabama. I drove through scenery I'd only ever seen in calendars: auburn leaves falling in Vermont, the sun setting over purple mountains in Arizona. It was incredible.

American Musician

Tim Hudson

Auburn is a very small, quiet college town, a different kind of place geographically and culturally.

American Athlete

Mark Twain

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

American Writer

Primarily used to describe human hair, sometimes horse coats, not objects or other colors.

Hair Color Specific

Auburn is a muted, natural red, distinct from bright or artificial red hues.

Not Bright Red

The color auburn often evokes the feeling of autumn due to its resemblance to fall foliage.

Autumnal Associations

 of a woman with wavy auburn hair and vivid blue eyes self-effacing but stubborn an idealist and an imp she played the banjo and surfed and the women she depicted smoking fighting huge

Living in a shadow PIPE...

 or the 72-acre Mt. Auburn in Cambridge, Massachusetts were lushly landscaped gardens filled with sculpted stones and ornate tombs. Once a luxury reserved for the rich and powerful,