Would You Make This Trade?
Would you trade a lumberjack for a burlesque dancee?
You’ll see an answer if you watch ABC’s series “Wife Swap”.
A Canisteo native who spends her time working honing her axes, swapped lives this summer with a burlesque dancer from Seattle - courtesy of ABC.
Andrea Robarge, now of Naples, was sent across the country as part of ABC’s reality television series “Wife Swap.”
Due to confidentiality agreements, however, Robarge is not allowed to discuss the filming of the show. Producers did not respond to attempts for comment.
Robarge lived in Canisteo until her family moved to Avon when she was 10 years old.
Despite her rural upbringing, she said she had never tried cutting firewood or anything else related to woodsmen’s competitions until she met her husband, Walter, when they attended Finger Lakes Community College together.
“I met him the day before school started,” Robarge said. “Then, about a week later, I was walking down the hallway and he said, ‘Hey we have this competition team and they need more women for the team.’”
“I was all dressed up and completely unprepared for it,” she added. “I went out there and they made me cut. I fell in love with it.”
Robarge spent much of her time in college competing and was inducted into the FLCC Athletic Hall of Fame in 2003 for her accomplishments on the Woodsmen’s team.
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