You could stay at your house but totality will be in and out very fast. By the time you say, wow, wow,wow it will be lover. It will get dark but not the nightime darkness to your north. If it is a sunny day and if you can take (even a short drive north) as the difference of Barre and even Waterbury will be huge!! The good thing in your location is you can wait and see what the cloudiness looks like